{"id":66382,"date":"2020-10-12T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=66382"},"modified":"2021-06-19T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:42:43","slug":"why-was-fort-william-college-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-was-fort-william-college-established\/","title":{"rendered":"why was Fort William College established?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Fort William College\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was founded on 10 July 1800 in Kolkata, British India and it\u2019s established by\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lord Wellesley<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The main purpose of establishing this college was to be to teach<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Indian Languages to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">British officers to make the administration smooth and swift<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">court of directors\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">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.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort William College\u00a0was founded on 10 July 1800 in Kolkata, British India and it\u2019s established by\u00a0Lord Wellesley. The main purpose of establishing this college was to be to teach\u00a0Indian Languages to\u00a0British officers to make the administration smooth and swift.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0court of directors\u00a0of the British East India Company were not in support of a training college&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-was-fort-william-college-established\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">why was Fort William College established?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310,9],"tags":[8088],"class_list":["post-66382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-fort-william-college","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":482,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}