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[Bengali] Corrections to the history section
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\subsection{Lohit Bengali}

Lohit Bengali font is consider as most popular Bengali font in India.
Lohit Bengali is one of the popular fonts for Bengali.

\subsection{History}
In 2004, Red Hat released five Indian language fonts as open source licensed
under the GPL. In 2011, Red Hat relicensed fonts under SIL OFL 1.1 license.
In 2004, Red Hat released five fonts for the Indian language under GPL 2.
The fonts were originally developed by Modular Infotech
\footnote{Modular Infotech \url{http://www.modular-infotech.com/}}.
In 2011, Red Hat relicensed fonts under SIL OFL 1.1 license
\footnote{License change announcement of Lohit fonts
\url{https://www.redhat.com/archives/lohit-devel-list/2011-September/msg00000.html}}.
The fonts named Lohit which means Red in Sanskrit. Currently, the font family
supports 21 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari (Hindi, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sindhi, Santali, Bodo, Dogri), Gujarati,
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