The Life of William Carey, D.D
Shoemaker and Missionary

A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India.

George Smith (Author)

9781108029186, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2011

500 pages, 17 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.63 kg

George Smith (1833–1919) published this biography in 1885. Carey (1761–1834), a key figure in the nineteenth-century Protestant missionary movement and founding member of the Baptist Missionary Society, lived and worked as a missionary in India from 1793 till his death 41 years later. The biography is based on Carey's unpublished letters, personal papers, missionary records and the recollections of Carey's friends and colleagues in India. It focuses on Carey's educational work; his involvement in India's agriculture; the mission centres he established throughout India; and his translations of the Bible into Sanskrit, Bengali and many other Indian languages. Smith, a popular Victorian biographer and an expert on India and missionary activity there, paints a vibrant picture of Carey and his extraordinary life. The biography remains a key source for the nineteenth-century Protestant mission movement and for the work of one of its key figures.

Preface
1. Carey's College
2. The birth of England's foreign missions
3. India as Carey found it
4. Six years in North Bengal – missionary and indigo planter
5. The new crusade – Serampore and the Brotherhood
6. The first native converts and Christian schools
7. Calcutta and the mission centres from Delhi to Amboyna
8. Carey's family and friends
9. Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Marathi
10. The Wiclif of the east – Bible translation
11. What Carey did for literature and for humanity
12. What Carey did for science – founder of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
13. Carey's immediate influence in Great Britain and America
14. Carey as an educator – the first Christian college in the east
15. Carey's last days
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]