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341:(1820–1891) was head pandit at Fort William College from 1841 to 1846. He concentrated on English and Hindi while serving in the college. After discharging his duties as academician, and engagements as a reformer he had little time for creative writing. Yet through the textbooks he produced, the pamphlets he wrote and retelling of
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Vidyalankar (c. 1762 – 1819) was First Pandit at Fort William College. He wrote a number of textbooks and is considered the first 'conscious artist' of Bengali prose. Although a Sanskrit scholar he started writing Bengali as per the needs of Fort William College. He published
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Teaching of Asian languages dominated: Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Sanskrit, Bengali. Later, Marathi and even
Chinese were added. Each department of the college was staffed by notable scholars. The Persian department was headed by
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announced his educational policy of public instruction in
English in 1835, mostly to cater to the growing needs of administration and commerce. He clipped the wings of Fort William College, and the
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Tarini Charan Mitra (1772–1837), a scholar in
English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Persian, was with the Hindustani department of Fort William College. He had translated many stories into Bengali.
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were never in favour of a training college in
Calcutta, and for that reason there was always a lack of funds for running the college. Subsequently, a separate college for the purpose, the
295:(1808). The last named book was the first published history of India. Mrityunjoy did not know English so the contents were possibly provided by other scholars of Fort William College.
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William College was served by a number of eminent scholars. They contributed enormously towards development of Indian languages and literature. Some of them are noted below:
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Along with teaching, translations were organized. The college employed more than one hundred local linguists. There were no textbooks available in
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at Haileybury (England), was established in 1807. However, Fort William College continued to be a centre of learning languages.
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in 1784 and the Fort William College in 1800, completed the first phase of Kolkata's emergence as an intellectual centre.
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