History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.s2.6

c11.s2.6

But towards the end of the 18th century the Vaiṣṇavas and the Ṣāktas were practically driven out of the field. Our vernacular literature passed into the hands of Europeans; and they trained a class of people to write manuals and school books after the manner of their own standard works. Mr. Wilkins trained Panchanana Karmakāra in the art of punch-cutting, but this was not all; it was the Europeans and chiefly the missionaries who trained the Pundits to write Bengali,—not as they would have it, but as their European masters wanted it.