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Q1. "What a very peculiar name!" Sir William Jones pondered the name of the ship that had been carried him for five months from England to India. He and his wife Anna Maria were now travelling up Hugli, on their way to Calcutta. India was new to them her skies, seas, birds and animals were so alien, "Oh! Look, there's a tiger, come down to drink water from the river" Anna Maria had pointed out with awe and delight. She was excited as her husband decided to move to this new country. For Sir William Jones, this journey satisfied a deep seated longing for he had an obsession with this and land. India her literature, beauty and history had attracted him for years.
Indeed the whole of Asia and many were the hours he had spent reading every book he could lay his hands on Yet, to his starved mind, there seemed to be so little material. He began to prepare a document, setting out everything he wished to study. "The history of the ancient world. traditions, modern politics and geography of Hindustan", he added, "Indians, agriculture, medicine wild life, natural products of India..." the list went on.
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