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Introduction

William Carey (17 August 1761 - 9 June 1834) was an English Christian missionary, particularly a Baptist clergyman, translator, social reformer, and cultural anthropologist who established Serampore College and Serampore institution, India's first degree-awarding institution.

He came to modern-day Kolkata in 1793, but non-Baptist Christian missionaries compelled him to quit the British Indian dominion. He joined the Baptist missionaries at Frederiksnagar, Serampore's Danish colony. One of his first endeavors was constructing schools where impoverished children could learn to read, write, account for themselves, and practice Christianity. He founded Serampore's first theological college, conferring divinity degrees, and strove to eliminate sati.

Carey is often regarded as the "Father of Modern Missions." The Baptist Missionary Society was founded due to his article, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of Heathens. The Asiatic Society praised Carey for "his eminent services in opening the stores of Indian literature to the knowledge of Europe, as well as his extensive acquaintance with this country's science, natural history, and botany, and his useful contributions, in every branch

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