Career
Ramram Basu initially joined as the munshi (scribe) for William Chambers, Persian interpreter at the Supreme Court in Kolkata. Subsequently, he worked from 1793 to 1796 for noted scholar William Carey (1761–1834) at Madnabati in Dinajpur. As college pundits were charged not only with teaching, but also with developing Bengali prose, there he began to produce a respected series of translations and new works, and continued to hold that post until his death.
lieutenant was printed at the Serampore Mission Press, and is now credited as the first Bengali to create a work in prose and also as the first historiography in Bengali.
Basu also created Bengali versions of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and aided in Carey"s Bengali translation of the Bible.