KASIPRASAD GHOSH. 
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Hindoo, I am indebted to the kindness of Miss 
Emma Roberts, a lady of high literary attainments, 
who knew him in India, for the following particulars. 
Kasiprasad Ghosh is of Brahminical descent. His 
ancestors were distinguished by holding high and 
responsible appointments under the native rulers of 
Bengal. Since the occupation of this vast province 
by the British, they have held a rank equally high as 
private members of their community. In 1821, when 
the subject of this brief memoir was fourteen years 
old, he was sent to the Anglo-Indian college at Cal- 
cutta, established under the superintendence of Mr. 
Horace Hayman Wilson, now Professor of Sanscrit at 
the University of Oxford. At this period the young 
Hindoo began to study the English language. During 
the six years that he was a member of this institu- 
tion, he distinguished himself by several compositions 
of great merit, undertaken at the recommendation of 
Mr. Wilson. A critical essay upon Mill’s British In- 
dia, read at the public examination in 1829, was 
esteemed so highly creditable to his talents, that the 
Calcutta Government Gazette printed copious extracts 
from it, which were subsequently republished in Lon- 
don in the Asiatic Journal. The early productions 
of Kasiprasad Ghosh now appeared from time to time 
in the Calcutta periodicals, and the attention they 
attracted, together with the encomiums bestowed 
upon them by all who were acquainted with the 
disadvantages under which their author laboured, 
induced him to publish a volume of poems : this was 
exceedingly well received in India, and deservedly so, 
as the poems evince talent of no common order. 
