William Carey
Rubab Abdullah, Residential Area, Dhaka Cantonment
William Carey was one of the scholars who helped the Bengali language and literature to become identifiable and thoroughly developed. Surprisingly, with the persistent effort of that foreigner early major textbooks in Bengali language were composed in large numbers. The nobleman, Carey, was born on August 17, 1761 in Paulerspury, a village in England. Since his teenage he was in quest for spiritual truth and he took Bible to his heart and decided to be a Baptist missionary. He arrived in India in 1793. He learnt different languages such as Hindi, Gujrati, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Bengali and Shanskrit. Besides, preaching messages from Bible, he was appointed as professor of language at the Fort William College on May 04, 1801. Then he started writing textbooks in Bangla. It was he who composed the first textbook on Bengali grammar. We are indebted to Mr. Carey.
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