Eastern Bengal Ballads 1929-31

From the beginning of the 18th century the Bengali writers began to observe the incongruity of' their action ond tried to remove such freaks and caprices In the spelling of words. : The correction of Bengali words on the lines of Sanskrit commenced from that . period. [...] I have said that the new Brahminism penetrated into the interior of Bengal with the sptead of the power of the Son Dynasty—the great patrons of the Brahmins. [...] The glory _achieved by the itightiest had not in their eyes the value of a particle of dust of the feet of a devotee. [...] The banks of the Knusa, the Bhairab, the Dharm, the Someswari and the Brihmaputra were the places where the Aryanised -hill-tribes had adopted the essence of Shaiva religion: influenced by Buddhist creed and. [...] so that the new Braliminism favoured by the Ben Rajas could not lay its hold upon them. , The jurisprudence of . 11aghtmandan had no voice in the lands of Halangs and Gams. , In regions domineered 'by new Brahrninism the Ghatto- padhyayas, the . Balidyopadliyayasi the Mukhopadhyayas and the Gangopadhyaya; became the letahts amongst the Brahmins. , They had obliterated their Old family surnames of Dhar,