page_title: Benjamin Bailey (missionary)
section_title: Malayalam language printing
hierarchical_section_title: Benjamin Bailey (missionary) / Malayalam language printing
caption_attribution_description: English: Benjamin Bailey's printing press, currently situated at CMS Press, Kottayam
context_page_description: Benjamin Bailey was a British Church Mission Society missionary in Kerala for 34 years. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he founded 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.
context_section_description: Benjamin Bailey was the founder of both Malayalam printing and book publishing. The CMS press he established in 1821 at Kottayam was not only the first Malayalam printing office but also the first book publishing house. CMS Press undertook printing works in the languages of Malayalam, English, Tamil, Sanskrit, Latin and Syriac-simply, CMS Press was the first polyglot printing office in Kerala. Printing led to the publishing of books and periodicals.  He translated the New Testament from Greek into Malaysian.
caption: Benjamin Bailey's Printing Press at CMS Press, Kottayam
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