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Serampore Missionary Press First Bengali New Testament. Nathaniel B. Halhead of the East India Company published a Bengali grammar for British officials in 1776 to aid interaction with the local Bengali population. [1] William Carey of Serampore translated the Bible into the Bengali language and published it in 1793 and 1801.
Mangal-Kāvya (Bengali: মঙ্গলকাব্য; lit. "Poems of Benediction") is a group of Bengali religious texts, composed more or less between 13th and 18th centuries, notably consisting of narratives of indigenous deities of rural Bengal in the social scenario of the Middle Ages.
The Dharmamangal (Bengali: ধর্মমঙ্গল) is an important subgenre of mangalkavya, with narratives of local deities of rural Bengal, the most significant genre of medieval Bengali literature. The texts belonging to this subgenre eulogize Dharmathakur, a folk deity worshipped in the Rarh region of Bengal.
Bengali Christians (Bengali: বাঙালি খ্রিস্টান) are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people. Christianity took root in Bengal after the arrival of Portuguese voyagers in the 16th century.
The title Kathamrita, literally "nectarine words" was inspired by verse 10.31.9 from the Vaishnava text, the Bhagavata Purana. [7] The pre-history of the Kathamrita has been discussed in R.K.Dasputa's essay (Dasgupta 1986). [8] The first volume (1902) was preceded by a small booklet in English called A Leaf from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna ...
Pal was born in 1764 in Calcutta, India.In 1800, at the age of thirty six, he dislocated his arm while doing carpentry work. He went to the missionary-doctor John Thomas, the first missionary to India from the Baptist Missionary Society, who told Krishna Pal, with the help of Joshua Marshman, of a "disease" they said was even more deadly—sin.
Bishnupriya Manipuri, also known as Bishnupriya Meitei [8] or simply as Bishnupriya, [a] is an Indo-Aryan lect [10] belonging to the Bengali–Assamese linguistic sub-branch. It is a creole [11] of Bengali language and Meitei language (also called Manipuri language) and it still retains its pre-Bengali features.
Pages from the Charyapada. The original palm-leaf manuscript of the Charyapada, or Caryācaryāviniścaya, spanning 47 padas (verses) along with a Sanskrit commentary, was edited by Shastri and published from Bangiya Sahitya Parishad as a part of his Hajar Bacharer Purano Bangala Bhasay Bauddhagan O Doha (Buddhist Songs and Couplets) in 1916 under the name of Charyacharyavinishchayah.