Show cultured hindus in dengal bengal there tire are about seventy millions of people find and they boast of perhaps ps tile the best culture in india at the present time the language as a a written language Is s only fifty benm of old though for over a thousand years it has been a dialect there la Is in indian history unfortunately no trace of Ilon bengali gall having been an important Ilter nry tongue tho the language ll 11 has s borrowed its alphabet grammar and vocabulary there tire are numerous persian arabic and english words incorporated in it and the wonder of it lf IF that instead of having been degraded into some vulgar orm like pidgin english bengall bengali has become the most literary scientific and perhaps tile the most philosophic of modern indian languages |