Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established in the period of Warren Hastings and he modestly declined the offer of Presidentship of that learned body in favour of Sir William Jones. Reason (R): Warren Hasting was himself a great scholar and an ardent orientalist who used to encourage the study of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic. Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

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Correct Answer: Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). • Assertion (A): The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established in the period of Warren Hastings and he modestly declined the offer of Presidentship of that learned body in favour of Sir William Jones. • Assertion (A) is correct as The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established on 15 January 1784, which was in the period of Warren Hastings (1772-1785). Also Warren Hastings modestly declined the offer of Presidentship of that learned body in favour of Sir William Jones. • Reason (R): Warren Hasting was himself a great scholar and an ardent orientalist who used to encourage the study of Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic. • Reason (R) is also correct. • Though Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

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