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Fort William College at Calcutta was established in
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Fort William College was established in 1800 CE by Lord Wellesley in Calcutta to train British civil servants in Indian languages like Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, and Marathi for effective colonial administration.
The college was not founded in 1802 CE, and its primary purpose was practical language training for governance, not historical research or cultural understanding.
When did Macaulay issue his famous minute on Indian Education?
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Lord Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education was issued on 2 February 1835, advocating for English as the medium of instruction over Persian and Sanskrit.
This led to the English Education Act, 1835 by Governor-General Lord William Bentinck, marking the shift from the Orientalist approach to Western education.
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