History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.95
History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.95
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c11.95
The above two extracts illustrate the easy and simple style which is to be found in some of the text books compiled for the college of Fort William in which Dr. Carey taught the Bengalee, Hindusthānī, and Mahārathi languages. He not only contributed very considerably himself to Bengali prose literature, but always befriended those who took good vernacular work in hand. For instance we find that Thākur's Bengali and English Diction-