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Title: History of Bengali language and literature. A series of lectures delivered as Reader to the Calcutta University
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sen, Dinesh Chandra, rai bahadur University of Calcutta
Subjects: Bengali literature -- History and criticism Bengali language
Publisher: Calcutta, The University
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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k, opposite Cri Ramapurand, overheard one ofthe guests, a general officer, making enquiry of oneof the Aides-de-Camp, whether Dr. Carey had notbeen a shoemaker, on which he stepped forwardand exclaimed, No Sir. only a cobbler ! • Careymight be seen writes John Clark Marshman•walking eight or ten miles to Northampton withhis wallet full of shoes upon his shoulders and thenreturning home with a fresh supply of leather tofulfil his cngagcntMiK with a rTOvirnment con-tractor. This man canu, subsequently as a missionaryto Bengal and felt a true Christian love for thepeople around him who appeared to him to besunk in superstition, vice and idolatory. Helearnt Sanskrit, Bengali, Persian and Maharatti,r.ot with a view to know the people or profit bythe wisdom contained in oriental books, but withthe object of bringing a large mass of humanity,whom he sincerely believed to be grovelling indarkness, to light. We may regret that Dr. Careyfailed to observe tin- religious life in Bengal which,
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Z/^-. .-./ I VII. ) BENGALI language: & LIlEkAlURE. 85I inspite of superstitions, was permeated with anoble purpose and a spirit of true devotionalfervour. But we can by no means ignore or un-derestimate the great pains and the indefatigableindustry that mark his endeavours to improve thelives of the Bengalis by spreading education andby disseminating the truths of the Gospel amongthem. To him we pre-eminently owe the rapiddevelopment of Bengali prose before Raja RamaMohana Roy took up the work right earnestly. The difficulties in the way of Dr. Carey weremany and great. It was his greatest ambition in lifeto publish a translation of the Gospel in Bengali.When after years of hard and unremitted labour,he had brought the translation of the New Testa-ment almost to completion, he estimated the cost ofprinting at Calcutta of 10,000 of copies at Rs. 43750.This was quite beyond his means, and he thoughtof getting the book printed in England. At first heproposed to obtain punches from C

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