write a note on William Jones and asiatic society of India
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Sir William Joshua 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 Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages. He, along with The Totti and Nathaniel Halhed, founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784.
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