caption death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name
missionary to india 9 june 1834 serampore , india paulerspury , england 17 august 1761 careyengraving.jpg william carey -lrb- missionary -rrb-
 william carey
william carey -lrb- missionary -rrb-

william carey -lrb- 17 august 1761 -- 9 june 1834 -rrb- was a british missionary , a particular baptist minister , a translator and an activist .
he also opened the first university in india offering degrees .
he is known as the `` father of modern missions . ''
his essay , `` an enquiry into the obligations of christians to use means for the conversion of the heathens '' , led to the founding of the baptist missionary society .
he went to kolkata -lrb- india -rrb- in 1793 , but was forced to leave the british indian territory by non-baptist missionaries .
he joined the baptist missionaries in the danish colony of frederiksnagar in india -lrb- serampore -rrb- , and there he lived with people ravaged by extreme poverty and diseases .
he translated the bible into bengali , oriya , assamese , arabic , hindi and sanskrit .
william carey has been called a social reformer and illustrious christian missionary , as well as a colonial ideologue with prejudice , hyperbole and concealed racism .
