With reference to educational institutes during colonial rule in India, consider the following pairs: Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?

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Correct Answer: 2 only. Warren Hastings, himself an intellectual, set up the Calcutta, Madras in 1781 for the study and learning of Persian and Arabic. In 1791 the efforts of Jonathan Duncan, the British Resident at Benares, bore fruit and a Sanskrit College was opened at Benares. Lord Richard Colley Wellesley took the first step for training of Civil Servants when he founded the fort William College, in Calcutta in November 1800 where the Civil Servants of the Company were to receive training in the literature, science and languages of India.

With reference to educational institutes during colonial rule in India, consider the following pairs: Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?

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