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Who first translated Bhagvad Gita into English ?
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The Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by Charles Wilkins.
Wilkins, a servant of the East India Company who had learnt Sanskrit in Benares, published The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon in London in 1785, with a preface by Governor-General Warren Hastings. He also prepared the first Bengali printing type, used for Halhed's Bengali grammar of 1778.
William Jones founded the Asiatic Society in 1784 and translated Kalidasa's Shakuntala and the law code of Manu, but not the Gita. Macaulay is known for his 1835 Minute on English education, and Lord Bentinck (spelt Bentington in the paper) was the Governor-General who abolished sati in 1829.
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