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throughtrade,scholarship,education and literature.  \n02 Early Encounter:Dryden's heroic plays,Fort William inCalcutta and Hicky's Bengal Gazette.  \n03 Orientalists:Sir William Jones,Charles Wilkins and H.T.Colebrooke studied and translated Sanskrit texts.  \n04 Anglicists:Charles Grant,Rammohun Roy and ThomasBabington Macaulay supported English education.  \n05 Macaulay's Minute(1835)and the language change of1837 gave English official power in India.  \n06 Later Voices:Dickens on 1857,Oaten's history ofAnglo-Indian literature,Gandhi and Rushdie.  \n滁  \nMODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS  \nEarly English Imagination:John Dryden  \n01 The Indian Queen(1664):written by JohnDryden with Sir Robert Howard.  \n02 Form:a heroic tragedy in rhymed couplets.  \n03 The Indian Emperour(1665):the sequel to TheIndian Queen.  \n04 Setting:both plays are set in the Americas(Mexico and Peru),not in India.  \n05 Aureng-Zebe(1675):Dryden's heroic play setin Mughal India.  \n06 Aureng-Zebe is Dryden's last heroic play in  \nrhymed couplets.  \n2  \n# MODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS\n\nFort William and the First Newspaper  \n01 Fort William,Calcutta:built between 1696 and  \n1706.  \n02 It was named after King William IIl of England.  \n03 Hicky's Bengal Gazette:first published on 29January 1780.  \n04 Founder:James Augustus Hicky.  \n05 It is regarded as the first newspaper printed in  \nIndia.  \n06 It was published from Calcutta,the centre of  \nBritish power in Bengal.  \n3  \n# MODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS\n\nAsiatic Society of Bengal  \n01 Asiatic Society of Bengal:founded in Calcutta in1784.  \n02 Founder:Sir William Jones.  \n03 It became the main centre of Orientalist researchon Indian languages,law and literature.  \n04 Orientalists:British scholars who studied andtranslated classical Indian texts.  \n05 Other important Orientalists:Charles Wilkins and  \nH.T.Colebrooke.  \n06 The Orientalists valued India's ancient learning,  \nunlike the later Anglicists.  \nMODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS  \nCharles Wilkins and the First English Gita  \n01 Charles Wilkins(1749-1836):an EnglishOrientalist scholar.  \n02 In 1785 he published \"The Bhagvat-Geeta,orDialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon\".  \n03 It was the first English translation of theBhagavad Gita.  \n04 Wilkins was also a printer and typographer.  \n05 He designed the first Bengali printing typeface.  \n06 The Gita translation was published in London in  \n1785.  \n5  \nMODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS  \nWilliam Jones:The Third Anniversary  \nDiscourse  \n01 Date:2 February 1786,at the Asiatic Society.  \n02 Claim:Sanskrit,Greek and Latin come from acommon source.  \n03 Jones said this common source perhaps nolonger exists.  \n04 He also linked Gothic,Celtic and Old Persian tothe same family.  \n05 The Discourse laid the base of comparative  \nphilology.  \n06 This language family was later named  \n\"Indo-European\"(the term came after Jones).  \n81  \n# MODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS\n\nWilliam Jones:Translations  \n01 Sacontala(1789):translation of Kalidasa'sAbhijnanashakuntalam.  \n02 Gita Govinda(1792):translation of Jayadeva'spoem.  \n03 Institutes of Hindu Law(1794):translation ofthe Manusmriti.  \n04 Jones did NOT translate the Mahabharata.  \n05 Jones did NOT translate the Kathasaritsagara.  \n06 Kathasaritsagara in English:translated by C.  \nH.Tawney(1880-1884).  \n7  \n# MODULE 1:COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND ORIENTALISTS\n\nCharles Grant:The First Blueprint  \n01 Charles Grant wrote \"Observations on the State ofSociety among the Asiatic Subjects of GreatBritain\".  \n02 It was written in 1792.  \n03 It is seen as the first blueprint for Englisheducation in India.  \n04 Grant argued that English and Western knowledgeshould be taught to Indians.  \n05 It was later printed by order of the House ofCommons in 1813.  \n06 Anglicists:supporters of 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