Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

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title: Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
text: Nathaniel Brassey Halhed was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhed was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. While at Oxford he undertook oriental studies under the influence of William Jones. Accepting a writership in the service of the East India Company, he went out to India, and there, at the suggestion of Warren Hastings, translated the Hindu legal code from a Persian version of the original Sanskri
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description: British orientalist and philologist
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