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Institution was established on it’sits [sic] existing footing after the most careful enquiry and deliberation. The want of elementary books in the Bengallee and Hindoostanee languages had for some time been perceived, and a subscription for the printing of such works was set on foot. The association for this purpose led to a more extended meeting in the month of May 1817, at the College of Fort William, when certain preliminary rules for the institution proposed to be established under the name of the Calcutta Book