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Fort William College was founded on 10 July 1800 in Kolkata, British India and it’s established by Lord Wellesley. The main purpose of establishing this college was to be to teach Indian Languages to British officers to make the administration smooth and swift.
The court of directors of the British East India Company were not in support of a training college in Kolkata. Then a separate College was established in 1807 in England.
