Page:History of Bengali Language and Literature.djvu/928

 884 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LILERATURE. [ Chap. terms of intimacy. It was not a meeting between officers and their subordinates which necessarily becomes formal for the discharge of official func- tions, but of those who made it a great point of their earnest endeavours to understand one another mutually. The study of the oriental languages, ahigh standard of proficiency in which was made compulsory, enabled the Civilians to comprehend the inner feelings and ideals of the vast population whom they were called upon to rule. The College of Fort William produced the most salutary results, creating a sympathetic attitude in European minds towards the native community, and both sections derived great profit from an interchange of thoughts. In the case of our countrymen, this result was manifest in the adoption of European manners and in the preference given to the civilisation of the west, and in the case of the European Civil servants, in their sympathetic attitude towards the people of this country, and in the hearty interest taken in all the movements of reform calculated to improve the condition of the latter. 4 ৯. 17৫ » of s | “k for the ০০০০ The range of studies marked out fo range of = students in the College was very extensive. It college. m7 ১ studies embraced the modern languages of Europe, the Greek, Latin and English Classics ; Geography and Mathematics ; general History, Botany, Chemistry and Astronomy ; Ethies and Jurisprudence, the laws of nations—of England, and in reference to Indian studies the Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit Hin- dustani, Bengali, Telegu, Mahratta, Tamil and Canarese languages and the history of the anti- quities of Hindustan and the Decan.,...........- The