The Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by which of the following Europeans?
Q. The Bhagavad Gita was first translated into English by which of the following Europeans?
Answer: Charles Wilkins
Notes: Charles Wilkins was the first person to translate the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit to English. Wilkins was an English typographer and Orientalist who worked for the East India Company. While in India, he learned Bengali, Sanskrit, and Persian and became a translator. Wilkins' translation was published in 1785 as “Bhagvat-geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon” by the British East India Company. The book was published by the Nourse printing press in Central London. Lord Warren Hastings, the first British Governor-General of India, wrote the introduction. Wilkins' translation is commonly known as Wilkin's Gita. In his preface, Wilkins argued that the Gita was written to encourage monotheism and to draw Hinduism away from the polytheism of the Vedas.

 

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