Question

who was Sir William Jones? why did he study Indian text

Answer 1

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welshphilologist, 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 Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages. He, along with Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed, founded the Asiatic Society of Bengalin 1784.