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Panchanan Karmakar (Mallick) (died c. 1804) was an Indian Bengali inventor, born in Jirat, Bengal Presidency, British India, hailed from Serampore. He assisted Charles Wilkins in creating the first the Bangla type. His wooden Bengali alphabet and typeface had been used until Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar proposed a simplified version. Apart from Bangla, Karmakar developed type in 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Marathi, Telugu, Burmese and Chinese. His predecessors lived in Jirat, afterwards they shifted to Tribeni in 1778.
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