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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 42

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple select

Who among these colonial administrators is/are Orientalist(s)?

  1. Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
  2. Sir William Jones
  3. Charles Grant
  4. John Gilchrist

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Correct answer: (A) Nathaniel Brassey Halhed; (B) Sir William Jones; (D) John Gilchrist

Explanation

Halhed, Jones and Gilchrist studied and promoted Indian languages and laws. Charles Grant was an evangelical Anglicist who argued for English education.