| LC control no. | n 83184096 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wilkins, Charles, approximately 1749-1836 |
| Variant(s) | Wilkins, Charles, Sir, 1750-1836 Wilkins, Charles, Sir, 1749?-1836 |
| Associated country | Great Britain India |
| Birth date | 1749~ |
| Death date | 1836-05-13 |
| Field of activity | Printing Translating and interpreting |
| Affiliation | East India Company |
| Profession or occupation | Printers Translators Asianists |
| Found in | A grammar of the Sanskrita language, 1983: t.p. (Charles Wilkins) jkt. (Sir Charles Wilkins, 1750-1836) LC data base, 11-25-83 (hdg.: Wilkins, Charles, Sir, 1749?-1836; usage: Charles Wilkins) Wikipedia, viewed 1 May 2015 (Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS (1749-May 13, 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator, alongside Panchanan Karmakar, of the first Bengali typeface. In 1770 he went to India as a printer and writer in the East India Company's service. In 1781 he was appointed as translator of Persian and Bengali to the Commissioner of Revenue and as superintendent of the Company's press.) |
| Associated language | eng ben per san |
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