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Edward Byles Cowell and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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Difference between Edward Byles Cowell and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Edward Byles Cowell vs. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Edward Byles Cowell FBA (23 January 1826 – 9 February 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.

Similarities between Edward Byles Cowell and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Edward Byles Cowell and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Sanskrit, The Asiatic Society, William Jones (philologist).

Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.

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William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.

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Edward Byles Cowell and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Comparison

Edward Byles Cowell has 27 relations, while Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has 77. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 2.88% = 3 / (27 + 77).

References

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