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Orientalists are people who have scholarly knowledge of the culture and languages of Asia.

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The above statement is true.
Orientalists are people with academic knowledge of Asian culture and language. The Orientalists were primarily British administrative historians who believed in the splendour of Indian culture and that Indians should be educated in their native and vernacular languages. The critical British scholars associated with these oriental studies were William Jones, Henry Colebrook, Nathaniel Hillhead, Charles Wilkins, and Horace Heymann Wilson. William Jones has established a systematic framework for summarising the similarities between Sanskrit and European languages. The terms "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" were used to refer to British scholars, bureaucrats, and politicians who opposed the changes in Indian pronunciation brought about by "Anglicists" in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At times, it first gained a clear political meaning.

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