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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) ("Haled") was an English Orientalist and philologist.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: A Grammar of the Bengal Language, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Bengali language, Brahmin, British Museum, Broad Street (ward), Charles Wilkins, Christ Church, Oxford, Cossimbazar, Dara Shikoh, East India Company, Edmund Burke, Elizabeth Ann Linley, Farce, Fort William College, Gentoo (term), Gentoo Code, Harrow School, Harry Burrard Neale, Harry Verelst (colonial governor), Hindus, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hugli-Chuchura, Indo-European languages, Internet Archive, Joanna Southcott, John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Jonathan Scott (orientalist), King Lear, Lisbon, Lucknow, Lymington (UK Parliament constituency), Mahabharata, Manuel da Assumpção, Member of parliament, Munshi, Nawab, Nawab of Awadh, Oriental studies, Panchanan Karmakar, Persian language, Philology, Pundit, Quran, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Richard Brothers, Rosane Rocher, Sanskrit, Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Lymington, Sir John D'Oyly, 6th Baronet, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. 18th-century apocalypticists
  3. 19th-century apocalypticists

A Grammar of the Bengal Language

A Grammar of the Bengal Language is a 1778 modern Bengali grammar book written in English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.

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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh

The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Broad Street (ward)

Broad Street is one of the 25 ancient wards of the City of London.

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Charles Wilkins

Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 – 13 May 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist, and founding member of The Asiatic Society. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Charles Wilkins are English orientalists.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædes, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Cossimbazar

Cossimbazar is a sub-urban area of Berhampore city in the Berhampore CD block in the Berhampore subdivision of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Dara Shikoh

Dara Shikoh, also transliterated as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Edmund Burke are British MPs 1790–1796.

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Elizabeth Ann Linley

Elizabeth Ann Sheridan (September 1754 – 28 June 1792) was an English singer who was known to have possessed great beauty.

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Farce

Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.

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Fort William College

Fort William College (also known as the College of Fort William) was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William complex in Calcutta.

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Gentoo (term)

Gentoo, also spelled Gentue, Gentow or Jentue, was a term used by Europeans for the native inhabitants of India before the word Hindu, with its religious connotation, was used to distinguish a group from Muslims and members of other religious groups in India.

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Gentoo Code

The Gentoo Code (also known as A Code of Gentoo Laws or Ordinations of the Pundits) is a legal code translated from Sanskrit (in which it was known as) into Persian by Brahmin scholars; and then from Persian into English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian working for the East India Company.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England.

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Harry Burrard Neale

Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neale, 2nd Baronet (born Burrard; 16 September 1765 – 7 February 1840) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, and Member of Parliament for Lymington. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Harry Burrard Neale are British MPs 1790–1796.

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Harry Verelst (colonial governor)

Harry Verelst (11 February 1734 – 24 October 1785) was a colonial administrator with the British East India Company and the governor of Bengal from 1767 to 1769.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hugli-Chuchura

Hugli-Chuchura, also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Joanna Southcott

Joanna Southcott (or Southcote; April 1750 – 26 December 1814) was a British self-described religious prophetess from Devon. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Joanna Southcott are 18th-century apocalypticists and 19th-century apocalypticists.

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John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth

John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, 1st Baronet (5 October 1751 – 14 February 1834) was a British official of the East India Company who served as Governor-General of Bengal from 1793 to 1798.

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Jonathan Scott (orientalist)

Jonathan Scott (1754–1829) was an English orientalist, best known for his translation of the Arabian Nights. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Jonathan Scott (orientalist) are English orientalists.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.

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Lymington (UK Parliament constituency)

Lymington was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1584 until 1868, and then one member from 1868 until 1885, when the borough was abolished.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Manuel da Assumpção

Manuel da Assumpção (then spelled Manoel da Assumpçam) was a Portuguese missionary who wrote the first grammar of the Bengali language, in 1743, titled "Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez" (Vocabulary of Bengali language and Portuguese. Divided into two parts) (archaic Vocabulario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez.).Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2003.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Munshi

Munshi is a Persian word, originally used for a contractor, writer, or secretary, and later used in Mughal India for native language teachers, teachers of various subjects, especially administrative principles, religious texts, science, and philosophy and were also secretaries and translators employed by Europeans.

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Nawab

Nawab (Balochi, Pashto: نواب; نواب; নবাব/নওয়াব; नवाब; Punjabi: ਨਵਾਬ; Persian, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu), also spelled Nawaab, Navaab, Navab, Nowab, Nabob, Nawaabshah, Nawabshah or Nobab, is a royal title indicating a sovereign ruler, often of a South Asian state, in many ways comparable to the western title of Prince.

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Nawab of Awadh

The Nawab of Awadh or Nawab of Oudh was the title of the rulers of Kingdom of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in northern India during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology.

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Panchanan Karmakar

Panchanan Karmakar (Mallick) (died c. 1804) was an Indian Bengali inventor, born at Tribeni, Hooghly, Bengal Presidency, British India, hailed from Serampore.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.

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Pundit

A pundit is a learned person who offers opinion in an authoritative manner on a particular subject area (typically politics, the social sciences, technology or sport), usually through the mass media.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 to 1812, representing the constituencies of Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Richard Brinsley Sheridan are British MPs 1790–1796.

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Richard Brothers

Richard Brothers (25 December 1757 – 25 January 1824) was an early believer and teacher of British Israelism, a theory concerning the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Richard Brothers are 18th-century apocalypticists and 19th-century apocalypticists.

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Rosane Rocher

Rosane Rocher (née Debels, born 10 August 1937) is a leading historian of Indology and a Professor Emerita of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Lymington

General Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet (1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813) was a British soldier who fought in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and in the Peninsular War. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Lymington are British MPs 1790–1796.

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Sir John D'Oyly, 6th Baronet

Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th Baronet (January 1754, Ipswich – 5 January 1818, Calcutta, Bengal, British India Kolkata) was a politician in Great Britain. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Sir John D'Oyly, 6th Baronet are British MPs 1790–1796.

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Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet

Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet (25 September 1742 – 30 October 1803) was an English politician and East India Company official. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet are British MPs 1790–1796.

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St Peter le Poer

St Peter le Poer was a parish church on the west side of Broad Street in the City of London.

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St Peter's Church, Petersham

St Peter's Church is the parish church of the village of Petersham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of "Oriental research" (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions).

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The Critical Review (newspaper)

The Critical Review was a British publication appearing from 1756 to 1817.

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Tipu Sultan

Tipu Sultan (Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu; 1 December 1751 – 4 May 1799), commonly referred to as Sher-e-Mysore or "Tiger of Mysore", was an Indian ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India.

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Tory

A Tory is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.

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Westminster

Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in London, England.

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William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and William Jones (philologist) are people from Westminster.

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William Manning (British politician)

William Manning (1 December 1763 – 17 April 1835) was a British merchant, politician, and Governor of the Bank of England. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed and William Manning (British politician) are British MPs 1790–1796.

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1796 British general election

The 1796 British general election returned members to serve in the 18th and last House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain.

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See also

18th-century apocalypticists

19th-century apocalypticists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Brassey_Halhed

Also known as Nathaniel Halhed.

, Sir Lionel Darell, 1st Baronet, St Peter le Poer, St Peter's Church, Petersham, The Asiatic Society, The Critical Review (newspaper), Tipu Sultan, Tory, Warren Hastings, Westminster, William Jones (philologist), William Manning (British politician), 1796 British general election.