Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...modes of Worship. 1826.--Published Bengali Grammar in English. His son acquitted of a charge of embezzlement. About the earlier part of the year, built the Vedant College. It is characteristic of Rammohun's many-sided activity that during the period of his energetic and voluminous theological controversy, he was busily engaged in promoting native journalism and native education. Hi rote was essentially that of the Enlightener; his one aim in publishing treatises on Unitarian divinity, in founding schools and colleges, and in conducting two newspapers was to enlighten the minds of his fellow-countrymen. He was certainly not the man to overlook the enormous value of the newspaper as an instrument for diffusing intellectual light. The relaxation in 1819 of the previously very stringent rules of press censorship enforced by the British Government was accepted by him as an invitation to the development of native journalism The regulation requiring every newspaper before it was ssued to be submitted to a Government official was dispensed with. Lord Hastings, the then Governor-General rontented _himself with prohibiting animadversions on the ictions of Government, discussions likely to create religious ilarm among the natives, or otherwise to stir up dissension, relying for the rest on "the prudence and discretion of the editors." In a copy of Mr. Buckingham's Calcutta Journal in the atter part of 1821 appeared the "prospectus of a Bengalee weekly newspaper to be conducted by natives, printed and circulated in Bengalee and English." It was to be called Sambad Kaumudi or "The Moon of Intelligence." It was to deal with "religious, moral and political matters; domestic occurrences; foreign as well as local..."
