History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.16

c11.16

The next notice that we have of printing in Bengali is that of the printed Code of Regulations drawn up by Sir Elija Impey on which all subsequent legislation has been based. The regulations were translated by Mr. Jonathan Duncan, afterwards Governor of Bombay, and were printed at the 'Company's Press' in 1785. The great Cornwallis Code of 1793, translated into Bengali by Mr. Forster, who was in his time the most distinguished European scholar of Bengali, was printed at the same press but from an improved fount, which continued to be the standard of Bengal types, till a neater and a smaller fount was prepared by Dr. Carey.