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During the Anglicist-Orientalist debate, Raja Rammohan Roy wrote a famous letter to Lord Amherst in 1823. What was his primary objection to the establishment of a Sanskrit School in Calcutta?
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- 1That the British were neglecting Persian, which was the official court language
- 2That the school would be used as a secret tool for Christian proselytization
- 3That it would load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little practical use✓
- 4That Sanskrit was a dead language that no Indian could master
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That it would load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little practical use
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