Excerpt from Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures Into the Oriental Languages In the College of fort-william in Bengal, there was a department for translating the Scrip tures into the Oriental languages and, so early as 1805, (the fifth year of its institution) a com mencement had been made in certain languages. The first version of any of the Gospels in the Persian and Hindnstanec tongues which were printed in India, issued from the Press of the College of fort-william. The Persian was su perintended by lieut.-colonel Colebrooke, . And the Hindostanee by William Hunter, Esq. The Gospels were translated into the Malay lan guage by Thomas Jarrett, Esq. Of the Civil Service -t he principal Oriental translator, in the Persian department, was Mir'za F itrut, a native of the dominions of the Great moghul and the head translator, in the Hindu departe ment, was Meer Buhador Ulee, a Hindu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.