5/18/2023 0 Comments Bengali letters in english![]() he has been obliged to charge himself with all the various occupations of the Metallurgist, the Engraver, the Founder and the Printer. Wilkins, a gentleman who has been some years in the India Company's civil service in Bengal, to undertake a set of Bengal types. The preface to his Bodhaprakasam labdasdstratm explains how Governor General Warren Hastings prevailed upon Mr. Two or three years later in Bengal, Nathaniel Brassey Halhed was seriously interested in the vernaculars. ![]() Some years later the font, still incomplete, found its way to the establishment of William Caslon III. In I773 or I774 he suddenly left for India, and the types remained behind. ![]() Such types were non-existent, and the type foundry of Joseph Jackson was engaged to prepare a font. While in London about the year 1770, William Bolts required some types for printing in Bengali. He is notable as the creator (assisted by engraver Panchanan Karmakar) of the first Bengali typeface., Source: British Library Sir Charles Wilkins (1749 – 1836) was an English typographer and Orientalist.
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