https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Robert_B._Wray 2026-08-17T12:27:46Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_B._Wray&diff=144211&oldid=prev 2020-01-17T16:22:09Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|English printer}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Robert B. Wray&#039;&#039;&#039; cast a [[movable type]] font for printing [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali script]] in 1778. It proved revolutionary for the British rule in India. [[Warren Hastings]] had taken over as the [[Governor-General of India]]. By the Regulating Act of 1773, he had become the Governor-General over the empire that had been established by the [[British East India Company]] in India.<br /> <br /> The officials of Hastings were motivated by the European [[Classicism]]. They were of the firm view that the rule of Britain over India was transitory. Soon, the great Old Indian culture would revive itself and regain its lost glory. They spent their energy to learn the Indian languages, literature, religion and culture. Ir has been identified with the [[Orientalism|Orientialist]] group among the British officials. Soon, they realized that they had to run their rule by adopting the regional languages. There was a dire need of using Bengali as the language of the administration. <br /> <br /> It was made possible when Robert B. Wray cast the Bengali type in 1778. It started a new phase of interaction between the British Officials and Indian people. It resulted in creation of [[Fort William College]] under the Governor-General [[Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley|Richard Wellesley]]. It was under the aegis of this college that most of the literary work of Orientalists had taken place. It was then that European books covering European philosophy and science, were translated into Bengali.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> * Jones, Kenneth W. Jones, &quot;Socio Religious Reform Movements in British India&quot;, [[The New Cambridge History of India]], 1994 India.<br /> <br /> {{authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Wray, Robert B.}}<br /> [[Category:English printers]]<br /> [[Category:Year of birth missing]]<br /> [[Category:Year of death missing]]</div>

imported>William Graham