Although Rammohun Roy was notably many things, he was not an unlikely person to write a grammar—or, in fact, two grammars: one in English and one in Bangla, the latter being a free translation of the ...

Even the school children at the primary school level today would tell us that the very first Bangla grammar and dictionary was written by Father Manoel da Assamção. But why was it so? Why was there no ...

The two-volume edition, published by the Bangla Academy of Dhaka and the Bangladeshi government, has been jointly edited by Rafiqul Islam, the Bangladeshi linguist, and Pabitra Sarkar, the Bengali ...