Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — Cultured Hindus. [ARTICLE]

Cultured Hindus.

In Bengal there are about seventy millions of people, and they boast of perhaps the best culture in India, at the present time. The language as a written language is only fifty years old. Though for over a thousand years it has been a dialect, there is in Indian history unfortunately no trace of Bengali having been an important literary tongue. The language has borrowed its alphabet, grammar and vocabulary. Ther'e are numerous Persian, Arabic apd English words incorporated in it, and, the wonder of it is that, instead of having been degraded into some vulgar form like pidgin English, Bengali has become the most literary, scientific and perhaps the most philosophic of modern Indian languages.