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William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India [1] and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press.
Serampore Trio. The Serampore Trio was the name given to three pioneering English missionaries in India, namely William Carey (1761-1834), a shoemaker, [1] Joshua Marshman, (1768-1837), a schoolteacher, [2] and William Ward (1769-1823), a printer. [3] William Carey arrived in Bengal in 1793 and Marshman and Ward arrived in 1799.
In 1799, Serampore was a protectorate of Denmark. The early British rulers of India were not in favour of Christian missionaries being active in India, but William Carey (1761–1834) established a mission at Serampore in 1799 which became known as the cradle of Modern Missions.
The Serampore Mission Press was a book and newspaper publisher that operated in Serampore, Danish India, from 1800 to 1837. The Press was founded by the British Baptist missionaries William Carey, William Ward, and Joshua Marshman, collectively known as the Serampore Trio, [1] at the Serampore Mission. It began operations on 10 January 1800.
Serampore College is located in Serampore, in West Bengal, India.Established in 1818, it is the fourth oldest college in the country after Old Seminary, Kottayam (Established 1815), CMS College, Kottayam and Presidency College Calcutta, and one of the oldest continuously operating educational institutes in India. [1]
William Carey, 1761–1834. In 1793, William Carey, an English Baptist Minister, came to India as a missionary but also as a man of learning in economics, medicine and botany. [150] He worked in Serampore, Calcutta, and other places. He translated the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and numerous other languages and dialects.
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"William Ward baptizing a Hindoo in the Ganges at Serampore", print (1821) from a painting by John Jackson. In the autumn of 1798, the Baptist mission committee visited Ewood, and Ward offered himself as a missionary, influenced perhaps by a remark made to him in 1793 by William Carey concerning the need for a printer in the Indian mission field.