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Serampore: printed at the Mission-Press, 1812. First edition. 8vo, 21 x 13 cm; pp.iv, 5-99, [1, blank]. Text in English and Punjabi in Gurmukhi characters. A near fine copy bound in contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards; spine sunned. The first published grammar of Punjabi, printed in Gurmukhi, the script of the Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib. The Punjabi is that spoken by Sikhs, as the preface makes plain. It covers the alphabet, substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, and syntax, but is meant only as a simple, accessible introduction prepared with an eye towards expanding British interests in the Punjab and intended for use at the College of Fort William, Calcutta. William Carey (1761-1834) was a Baptist missionary and linguistic scholar. Inspired by the voyages of Cook, he volunteered to join an early mission to India, arriving in Bengal in 1793. Shortage of funds compelled him to work as the manager of an Indigo factory. He learned Bengali and Hindi and began to preach and translate the Bible. When the East India Company refused permission to settle a small party of missionaries in 1800, Carey, with Joshua Marshman and William Ward, moved to the Danish settlement at Serampore where they developed a prominent network of Baptist missions. Though conversions fell short of expectations they produced a large number of dictionaries and grammars. Carey himself wrote grammars of Bengali, Bhotia, Marathi, Sanskrit, and Telinga, together with dictionaries of Bengali, Bhotia, and Marathi. In 1801 he was appointed to the faculty of the College of Fort William, Calcutta, a help given the Company's proscription of missionary activity within their territory prior to 1813. His contribution to early linguistic studies in India was immense, and his sincere interest in Bengali literature played a part in sparking the Bengali renaissance of the nineteenth century. Diehl 72.
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