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Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation

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Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation

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Post by passing » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 10:56 PM UTC

Forced Perspective: Sir William Jones gets lost in translation
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Post by spratzt » Sat, Jun 11, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

I didn’t realize that it wasn’t until 1835 that English supplanted Persian as the official language for the East India Company.

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