The college that was established in Banaras in 1791 was the Sanskrit College. It was founded by Jonathan Duncan, the British Resident of the East India Company at Varanasi, with the purpose of promoting the study of ancient Indian texts and literature in Sanskrit language. The college was later renamed as Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.
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Who had devised the policy called the 'Doctrine of Lapse' in Colonial India?
What change did the Regulating Act bring to the post of the Governor of Bengal?
The Regulating Act of 1773 primarily introduced changes in the Company's administration in which two distinct areas?
In 1817, James Mill, a Scottish economist and political philosopher, published a massive three-volume work, A History of British India. In this he divided Indian history into three periods—Hindu, Muslim and:
The First Anglo-Afghan war took place in:
The main objective of British economic policies in India was to:
What was the reason for stagnation in the agricultural sector during the colonial rule?
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