Charles Wilkins
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- Roles
- punchcutter, type founder
- Dates
- 1749 – 1836
- Nationality
- British
- Scripts
- Bangla (Bengali) Devanagari
Cut and cast the Bangla types for Nathaniel Brassey Halhed's grammar of 1778 and a complete Devanagari fount in 1795. Taught type-making to Panchanan Karmakar.
See also
Sources
- Wilkins, Sir Charles - Banglapedia (archived copy)
- Typography of Devanagari, Volume One, pp. 259–262 (Bapurao S. Naik)
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