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Marshman was a student of Indian history and he wrote what was for many years the only history of Bengal. He was also long engaged on the writing of the history of India; his reading was very wide and he was a distinguished Oriental scholar. He studied Chinese (like his father) and knew the major
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In 1855 Marshman planned to leave India for good. Mack and he proposed once again to pass control of the college to the Baptist Missionary Society; this time the proposal was accepted. He resigned his post as Official Bengali Translator to the Government and returned to England to
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Marshman later rather unwillingly accepted the position of Official Bengali Translator to the Government, and thereafter was abused almost daily in the native newspapers as "the hireling of the Government". His salary of £1,000 per annum was passed to the college.
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Guide Book For Moonsiffs, Sudder Ameens And Principal Sudder Ameens Containing All The Rules Necessary For The Conduct Of Suits In Their Courts Extracted From The Regulations Of Government, And Methodically
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and Marshman struggled to carry on the work of the college, spending all their earnings and Marshman's income from his private concerns, including those from the paper mill. After he published
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in European minds for much of the 19th century. The printing operations were so successful that they acquired their own substantial buildings by the river just north of the Mission Chapel.
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On his death it is said that he had known as much about Indian affairs as if he had been the personal assistant to four successive Viceroys. He died at Radcliffe Square, North
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As the struggle to maintain the college was getting more onerous each year to try and fund privately, Mack and Marshman decided to turn the college over to the
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at the Mission to manufacture a special new type of paper that had been devised by the missionaries to resist the virulent ravages of the local
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How Wars Arise in India: Observations on Mr. Cobden's Pamphlet, entitled, "The Origin of the Burmese War"
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In April 1818, Marshman, together with his father Joshua, launched the first monthly magazine in
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The History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration
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The History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration
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The History of India from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie's Administration
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The History of India from remote Antiquity to the Accession of the Mogul Dynasty
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in 1868. To earn a living he became chairman of the Committee of Audit of the
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The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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in 1821, which became so popular that Serampore was synonymous with
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Guide to Revenue Regulations of the Presidencies of Bengal and Agra
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which was one of the two first Bengali newspapers (the other being
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which remains one of India's leading English-language dailies.
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At the age of 5, Marshman travelled with his parents and
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Guide to the Civil Law of the Presidency of Fort William
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Sanskrit poems. He also gave much attention to Persian.
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John Clark Marshman: (a trustworthy friend of India)
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Colesworthey Grant
Bristol
London
Joshua Marshman
Hannah Marshman
Joshua Marshman
Hannah Marshman
Bristol
schoolmaster
William Ward
Bengal
Serampore
boarding schools
Serampore
Bengali
Bengali
Digdarshan
Samachar Darpan
Bengal Gazetti
Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya
Serampore Mission
Friend of India
The Englishman
The Statesman
paper mill
white ants
Serampore Paper
Thwaites and Rothwell

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