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2 unusual facts about Fort William College


Fort William College

Yet through the text books he produced, the pamphlets he wrote and retelling of Kalidas’s Shakuntala and Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors he set the norm of standard Bengali prose.

Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya

In 1814-15 Munshi Lallulal Kavi, a Gujarati Brahmin (of the Braja Bhasa)of Fort William College was believed to have acquired the rights to Baburam’s Sanskrit Press.


Graves Haughton

He become proficient in Hindustani and entered Fort William College in Calcutta to further his knowledge of oriental languages, winning several prizes.

John Peter Grant

He joined the Bengal Civil Service in the following year and spent some time at Fort William College in Calcutta before being appointed as an assistant magistrate in Bareilly.


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