Question

1. Sir William Jones set up the ______ in Calcutta 1784.

2. In 1792, ______ set up the Benaras Sanskrit College at Benaras (now Varanasi).

3. In 1854, the English East India Company sent the _____ to India emphasizing the
value of western learning.

4. In ______, universities were set up in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

5. The greatest achievement of Sir Syed Ahamad Khan was the setting up of _______
in Aligarh.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European.