CONTENTS
Introduction, pp. 1–4.
CHAPTER I
Bengali prose before Raja Ram Mohan Roy–the varieties of spoken form–Prose of an earlier epoch–illustrations–Jnanadi Sadhana–Golak Sarma’s Hitapodesh–Dr. Carey’s Itihas Mala–Rajib Lochan’s Krisnachandra Charit–Nava Babu Bilas–the most popular book of the time–Nava Babu Bilas and Alaler Gharer Dulal–the archaic forms–the exotic influences–the influence of the Vaisnava writers–inanimate objects glorified–the use of ‘অ’–the influence of Persian and Arabic–Language of the Court and fashionable society–the decadence of the Mahamoden influence–foreign words adding force to our language–the conservative element, pp. 5–42.
