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JAMES PRINSEP (1999-1840)

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JAMES
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PRINSEP (1999-1840)  , Anglo-
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Indian
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scholar and
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antiquary, was
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born on the loth of
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August 1799 . In 1819 he was given an
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appointment in the
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Calcutta
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mint, where he ultimately became assay-
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master, succeeding H . H .
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Wilson, whom he likewise succeeded as secretary of the
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Asiatic Society . Apart from architectural
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work (chiefly at
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Benares), his leisure was devoted to Indian
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inscriptions and
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numismatics, and he is remembered as the first to decipher and translate the
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rock edicts of
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Asoka . Returning to
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England in 1838 in broken
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health, he died in
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London on the 22nd of
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April 184o .
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Prinsep's
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Ghat, an archway on the
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bank of the
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Hugli, was erected to his memory by the citizens of Calcutta .

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