Charles Wilkins
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Charles Wilkins
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Sir Charles Wilkins was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of the Asiatic Society. He is notable as the first translator of the Bhagavad Gita into English. He is also the first person to introduce the term Hinduism which would refer to all the different mythologies and cultures of which were existing in India as one. He supervised Panchanan Karmakar to create one of the first Bengali typefaces. In 1788, Wilkins was elected a member of the Royal Society.
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British Orientalist and typographer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilkins
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2004-03-05T21:32:09Z
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2024-09-09T06:55:41Z
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