the British and Devanagari (Was: Urdu, Hindi, and Sanskrit)

[Aditya, the Cheerful Hindu Skeptic]

Allen W Thrasher <athr at LOC.GOV> has written as follows:

>I seem to recall the British made a decision that printing of Sanskrit
>works from government institutions would only be in Devanagari.  But I
>have no idea where I heard this.  Is this true?  If so, what are the
>sources for the assertion and when, how, and why was the decision
>made?
I have not heard about British printing any works in Sanskrit in any script
but which other script could have been used?

British army did print their documents in Roman script.

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