Question

State any two advantages of setting up of Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Asiatic Society was an organisation during the British Raj in Inida, founded to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research", in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions. It was founded by the philologist William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then capital of the British Raj.