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Translator of the Bible into Malayalam (1791-1871)

Lived 1791 to 1871 · aged 80
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Benjamin Bailey was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala, India for 34 years. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he found a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 he established a Malayalam printing press.

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Benjamin Bailey's Printing Press at CMS Press, Kottayam, which was moved later to Benjamin Bailey MuseumBenjamin Bailey's Printing Press at CMS Press, Kottayam, which was moved later to Benjamin Bailey Museum

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Benjamin Bailey was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala, India for 34 years. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he found a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 he established a Malayalam printing press. He translated the Bible into Malayalam, in 1846 published the first English-Malayalam dictionary, and in 1849 published the first Malayalam-English dictionary.

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Lived 1791 to 1871 · aged 80
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