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1) Write a short note on the Fort William College ?​

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1) White a short note on the Fort William College ?

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The Fort William College was founded in 1800 by Lord Wellesley to give training to the newly recruited young civilians in lndia . These young civilians were generally ignorant of Indian affairs . The East India Company 's government felt the need to trail administrators in Indian languages and law as well as European literature and philosophy to work efficiently . A number of eminent scholars like Carey , Matthew Lampsden , Mrityunjay Vidyalankar , Tarini Charan Mitra and others contributed towards the development of Indian language and literature . Thousands of books were translated from Sanskrit , Arabia , Persian , Bengali , Hindi and Urdu in English at this institution . The college employed more than one one hundred local linguists to meet its purposes .