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 CHAPTER VIL a THE MODERN AGE. 1. (a) The epoch ushered in by European workers— civilians and missionaries, (b) Dr. Carey and his colleagues, (c) Bengali works written by Europeans. (d) A new ideal in the country. ll. (a) The Coliege of Fort William. _(b) The Pundits of the Colilege—Mrityunjaya— Rama Rama Vasu—Chandi Charan Munsi— and Rajiva Lochana—Their Bengali works. (c) The Rev. K. M. Banerjee and other authors who followed in the wake of European ’ writers—a list of their publications. Ill. General remarks chiefly indicating the charac- teristics of the new age and its contrast with the earlier one. IV. (a) Decadance of the high spiritual ideal in Hindu society and the advent of Raja Rama Mohana Roy. (b) A comprehensive review of his life and work. (c) The writers that followed Raia Rama Mohana Roy — Devendra Natha Tagore. — Aksaya Kumara Dutta and others. I. (a) The new epoch ushered in by European workers,—civilians and missionaries, Whatever remnants of prose we may be able to unearth from old records and manuscripts in order to vindicate the glory of our past literature, it must, for the sake of truth, be admitted that they were too insignificant to deserve prominent men- tion in ahistory of literature. Disconnected from the story of the later development of prose, that has grown up like a rich harvest during the British rule, they would scarcely deserve more than a passing notice. Early prose—of a minor im- portance,