A Dictionary of the Principal Languages Spoken in the Bengal Presidency, Viz. English, Bángálí, and Hindústání: In the Roman Character : with Walker's Pronunciation of All the Difficult Or Doubtful English Words

P. S. D'Rozario

Jan 1837 · G. Woollaston

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to explain the motives which led to its being undertaken. The English language has for some time past begun to be appreciated as it deserves to be, by the Natives of India. It is rapidly becoming the language of liberal education. It is cultivated in the numerous Seminaries which have been established at the principal stations of the Bengal and Agra Presidencies, and the persons are not few who study it at their own home? independently of any Seminary. At this, turn of the national taste, the essential aid which a Dictionary • affords in the acquisition of a new language was almost entirely wanting. Those which were procurable had been prepared for the use, not of the Native, but of the European student. Their excessive cost placed them beyond the reach of any except the most wealthy, and the interpretation given by them in the Native language was generally confined to the nearest corresponding word, without any detailed explanation.

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