Multifaceted! In Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary George Smith dramatically reveals the reality of religious practice in colonial Bengal. With Carey began the Modern Mission Movement. Besides creating dictionaries of many Indian and Asian languages, translating, publishing and printing the literature of these cultures, Carey translated the Bible into Bengali and Sanskrit, stopped the practices of infant sacrifice and sati and founded the Agri-Horticultural Society of India at Calcutta. In Carey’s lifetime, he printed and distributed the Bible in part or whole in 44 languages and dialects!
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