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Bengali Prose and Style 1800-1857 1919-1920

1922

It will be like watching the construction of the Taj with mate- rials piled up on the banks of the Jumna by the un weary efforts of the day-labourers ; for is not the highly refined Bengali prose of the present day as artistic and beautiful as the Taj—wrought indeed not in marble but in words ? As ours, however, is the task of tracing the development of the Bengali prose style, we shall only incid [...] Some time after the Raja told his minister "Send sweets and curd to the houses of all citizens in baskets. " The minister did as he was ordered and then waited on the Raja and said "Go, Sir, to the inner apartments and see your new-horn Son, the officers and servants of the pplace are aiso eagerly wishing to see the prince. ] (Kristurchandra Charita): The most popular Bengali book during l8q3- 1858 [...] the time. - Pramathanath wrote another book on the same lines in which he depicted the vices of the young women of Bengal as he had exposed those of the young Balm in his Navabribubilas ' end the former was no less severe than the hitter. [...] The colophon towards the end of this extract is a very curious specimen showing the mannerism in the prose- Writing of those days on the Bites of a Ilftst in poetical composition. [...] The influence of that Persian work must account for the lavish use of the words of that language in the Ozintryrwr bfira. - The Moslem influence mainly resulted in the 6"42 BENGALI PROSE slims importation of some ArabiC, Persian and Urdu words into the Bengali Vocabulary ; but a whole- sale change was brought on by the advent of die English.
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Pages
181
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xii Dinesh Sen view
Introduction
1-4 unknown view
Chapter I. Bengali Prose Before Raja Rammohan Roy
5-42 unknown view
Chapter II
43-60 unknown view
Chapter III
61-100 unknown view
Chapter IV Raja Rammohan and his School
101-114 unknown view
Chapter V Vocabulary and Grammar
115-127 unknown view
Chapter VI Vidyasagar Akshay Dutt and other Writers
128-144 unknown view
Index
145-153 unknown view
Opinions
i-xvi unknown view

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