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The first column in it contains the first two paragraphs of an article in 

 which the editor of the Uthala Dipikd condemned my theory about the 

 Bengali origin of Uriya; they contain just 142 words of which 137 

 are Bengali or derived from Bengali, and 5 are English. The trans- 

 lation of this in Bengali in the second column contains 1 44 words, 

 of which none differs radically from the Uriya, but fifty-six have 

 some phonetic or grammatical peculiarity or other. In the third 

 column is given a version of it in the spoken language of Dacca, 

 prepared by a resident of that district, Babu Eamakumar 

 Bose, Deputy Magistrate of the 24-Purgunnahs. It contains 

 146 words, of which 47 are different from the Bengali. Thus 

 it will be seen that the Dacca dialect differs nearly as much 

 from the Bengali as the Uriya does, in sound. If I had time 

 to get translations of the Uriya extract prepared in the spoken 

 dialects of Comillah, Sylhet, Assam or Ooch Behar, I could 

 have easily shewn that they differ fully as much from the Bengali 

 in their phonetics and grammar, as does the Uriya. But I suppose 

 they are not wanted. The table, as it stands, shews clearly enough 

 the relation which the Uriya bears to Bengali. No one who knows 

 the language of the middle column, can read the other two without 

 the conviction that they contain Bengali matter badly written. 

 And such being the case, I cannot but repeat the assertion, 

 that the Uriya is more closely related to Bengali than the other 

 vernaculars of India, and that the relationship most probably is that 

 of mother and daughter and not of two sisters. And if this 

 be admitted, it must follow that, as in Comillah, Assam, Sylhet, 

 and Coch Behar, so in Orissa, education should be conducted in 

 Bengali and not in Uriya. As I have already said, every county 

 in England and Scotland has its dialectic peculiarity, and yet edu- 

 cation is not carried on through the medium of separate sets of 

 books, prepared with special regard to the dialectic peculiarities of 

 each county, but in one common English. In France almost every 

 department, in the same way, has its peculiar dialect, but as yet 

 there has not been a vernacularist hot-headed enough to suggest 

 that each district should have a separate language ; and the French 

 of the Institute of France is the only recognised medium of educa- 

 tion. The same circumstances obtain in Germany including Aus- 



