130 BENGALI LITERATURE intellectual progress in this country consists in its revival of the ancient culture of the land, its all-comprehensive orientalism daring far beyond the intrepid dreams of scholars hke Sir William Jones, Wilkins, and Colebrooke. But this orientalism embraced a great deal more than a mere revival of classical learning. Attention hitherto had never been turned to vernacular learning in this country which was in a sadly neglected state at the beginning of the century. The College of Fort William, by its encourage- ment of the vernacular, first brought it into public notice and fostered and nourished it. The list of its publications between 1800 and 1825 The list of its pub. CO™Ptises, besides 31 works in Hindu- lications between 1800 sthani, 24 in Sanserit, 20 in Arabic, and 1825, : এ : and 2] in Persian, the following principal works in Bengali! chronologically arranged. 1801 Pratapaditya Charitra’ by Ram Ram Basu. A Grammar of the Bengalee Language by W. Cavey. athopakathan® by William Carey. Hitopades translated by Golak-nath Sarma.
- This list is based on the lists given in Roebuck, op, cit. App. II, p.
29 (A Catalogue of all the Oriental works published under the patronage of the College of Fort William since its Institution in 1800 up to August 15, 1818); in Buchanan, op, cit. (List of books printed and published by the Fort William College before 1805) pp. 219-286 ; in Long’s Catalogue which, however, is not always reliable. In all these cases where (with the oue or two exceptions mentioned) I have been able to avail myself of the original editions, I have compared and verified the dates here given. Particulars or details about these works will be found in their proper places below, where each of them has been reviewed in its turn,
- It seems to have been published a month later than Pratapaditya
Charitra.
