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William Carey's Birthplace (View 2)
Early Home of William Carey in England
Early Home of William Carey in England (View 2)
William Carey as a Schoolmaster in England
Carey's Cottage and School, Piddington
Carey's Cottage and School (View 2)
Carey, the Cobbler in his Workshop
Victorian Images of Carey and His World Represented in America
William Carey's House in Leicester, England
William Carey, Missionary to Bengal and Member of "Serampore Trio"
(from Eustace Carey, Memoir of William Carey, D.D., with an Introductory Essay by Jeremiah Chaplin, D.D. (Hartford: Canfield and Robins, 1837).
"I am very affectionately yours, W Carey"
(detail image of William Carey's handwriting)
Carey Distributing Books in India
William Carey Window, First Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.
Photo, courtesy, Dr. Jason Coker
William Carey Baptizes Krishna Pal, Carey's First Indian Convert
William Carey's Personal Signature
William Carey, "The Shoemaker Who Became 'The Father and Founder of Modern Missions'"
William Carey: "The Father of Modern Missions"
William Carey, Colleague of Dr. John Thomas
Scenes in Paulerspury, Northamptonshire: Site of William Carey's Birthplace and Youth
William Carey at His Desk with Brahmin Pundit
William Carey at His Desk with Brahmin Pundit
(1853 version of American Baptist Publication Society)
William Carey and Brahmin Pundit (1887 version)
(as represented in the late nineteenth century)
William Carey Bust in Agricultural Society of India
(Carey founded the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India)
William Carey Bust, Serampore College
(Photo courtesy of Jon Brooke)
Indian Government Stamp First Day Issue, Honoring Dr. William Carey, (1993)
Detail of Dr. William Carey Stamp (right side)
Detail of Dr. William Carey Stamp (left side)
Brochure for Dr. William Carey Stamp
William Carey Hall, American Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, Wisconsin
This postcard photograph from the early 1950s is described as follows: "This 300 foot building which once served as a cattle barn, is now the headquarters for conferences in the Abbey Area. It contains a cafeteria, conference room, auditorium with stage and rooms for 250 guests. Color Photo by J. A. Fagan."
Joshua Marshman, Colleague of Carey and Member of "Serampore Trio"
Silhouette Image of Joshua Marshman
"Courtesy Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby, England
Joshua Marshman, Early Leader in the Baptist Missionary Society
Wife of Joshua Marshman, a member of the Serampore Trio, Hannah became known for her work in starting schools for Bengali children (including females) in Serampore. Arriving in India in 1799 and dying in Serampore in 1847, Hannah served as a Baptist missionary there longer (48 years) than anyone else directly associated with the Serampore Trio.
William Ward, Colleague of Carey and Member of "Serampore Trio"
William Ward as Portrayed in the Baptist Magazine, 1817
Rev.d
William Ward, Baptist Missionary (ca. 1820)
Baptist Missionary Society Engraving
"Thomson Sculp. Revd. William Ward"
"Courtesy
Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby,
England
"R.Baker Scupl.l
Revd. William Ward. Late of Serampore, Died March 7. 1823. Aged 53.
W.Ward.
Engraved by Permission from the Original Painting by Overton, for Stennets, Life
of Ward."
Handwritten note says: "also inserted in 'Simpsons History of Derby'"
"Courtesy
Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby,
England
"Revd. William Ward, Baptist Missionary of Serampore
Engraved by Freeman for the New Evang. Magazine"
"Courtesy Derby City Libraries
(Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby, England
"Revd. William Ward. Late of Serampore Died March
7.1823, Aged 53.
W Ward Engraved by Edwd. Scriven Historical Engraver to His Majesty from a
Drawing by Thos. Overton, taken in 1820. London October 9th 1823. Published by
Alexr. Smith, 11 Orange Street, Red Lion Square."
"Courtesy
Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby,
England
"Courtesy Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby, England
"Courtesy Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby, England
Rev. William Ward (1769-1823)--Pioneer Baptist Missionary, printer extraordinary, and Serampore Trio member
(conceived and created by Ronald Ellis, Derby, England)
Mr. Ward Baptizing a Hindoo in the Ganges at Serampore
"Courtesy
Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby,
England
John Rippon, D.D. (1751-1836), Editor The Baptist Annual Register, 1790-1802
Engraving from the Baptist Missionary Society
Pastor, Harvey Lane Church, Leicester, 1807-1826
Engraving from the Baptist Missionary Society
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
(site of the establishment of the Baptist Missionary Society)
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, late nineteenth century
Birthplace of England's Foreign Missions, Kettering (1885)
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, 1906
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, ca. 1909. Reverse side of postcard.
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, ca. 1912
Baptist Missionary Society Mission House in Kettering, 1920s
Cannon Street Chapel, Birmingham, England
Site of 1823 Formation of Auxiliary Baptist Missionary Society for Birmingham (for sending Gospel to the heathen)
Cannon Street Chapel, Birmingham, England (ca. 1905)
Opened in 1738, Rev. Samuel Pearce ("Seraphic" Pearce) was the pastor, 1790-1798. In the second meeting of the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen, on October 31, 1792, the Cannon Street Chapel donated £70 to the mission cause.
Widow Wallis House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, 2002
Front Door of Carey Mission House (Widow Wallis House), 2002
Grave of Martha Wallis, Fuller Baptist Church, Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Postal card, ca. 1900
Regent's Park College, London (smaller file)
King Frederick VI and Queen of Denmark, Friends and Protectors of the Serampore Missionaries
Plan of Serampore on the Hoogli
Christian Villagers in Serampore
The First Brahman Who Preached Christ
Christian Villagers, Serampore
Carey's Christian Village—Baptism in the Tank
Serampore College (1887 version)
Serampore College, as seen in the 1880s
Serampore College, 1920s?
Issued by the Baptist Missionary Pictorial Postcards
The Johnnagar Chapel, ca. 1900
Serampore College Danish Charter, Serampore, India
(The late Dr. Marjorie Rowden Kelly in photo)
Carey Hall Serampore College, Serampore, India
(photo courtesy of Dr. Earl Kelly)
William Carey's Desk at Serampore, India
(Dr. Earl Kelly and a Serampore College Official in photo)
Mission House Where Dr. Carey Lived
Dr. William Carey's Grave in the Mission Burial Ground, ca. 1900
William Carey's Tomb, Serampore
"Second Founder of Serampore College"
Principal, Serampore College, 1906-1929
Howells Collection
St. Andrew's Church, Dalhousie Square; Reverse post card message to a family member
Old Danish Church at Serampore in which Carey and his Colleagues Ministered (black and white)
Old Danish Church at Serampore in which Carey and his Colleagues Ministered (color)
(Image courtesy of Ronald Ellis, Derby, England)
Danish Lutheran (now Anglican) Church, Serampore, 1885
Native Divinity Students, Serampore College
The First Serampore College Bachelors of Divinity
Serampore's Faculty and Students, 1914
Quadrangle of Serampore College Hostel
Carey's Official Residence and Back of the College
In the Enquiry (p. 35), Carey referred to Luther as opposing "popery" with the gospel.
Scottish reformer
John Eliot (1604-1690), Missionary to Native Americans
Carey Relied on Eliot as a Model for His Own Missionary Identity
Cameo Portrait of John Eliot (1604-1690)
Rev. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), Missionary to Native Americans
Carey Relied on Edwards as a Model for His Theology and Missionary Identity
Rev. David Brainerd (1718-1747), Missionary to Native Americans
Carey Relied on Brainerd as a Model for His Own Missionary Identity
Cameo Portrait
(1726-1798; Lutheran Missionary to India)
Cameo Portrait
Martyn, an Anglican, arrived in India, 1806, and became a friend of Carey, Marshman, and Ward.
Rev. Henry Martyn (1781-1812), As a Young Man
Rev. Henry Martyn's First Attempt at Preaching the Gospel to Indians
Rev. Samuel P. Williams (1779-1826)
Born in Connecticut, Williams was an American Protestant minister, student of Dr. Timothy Dwight at Yale, and supporter of the missionary enterprise.
Son of William Carey, Felix was an accomplished Bengalee speaker and translator who went to Burma as a missionary. This image illustrates the loss of his wife and children in a shipwreck.
Martyn Preaching to the Union's Ship Company on the Voyage to India, 1805
Martyn Attempting to Save a Woman from Suttee
Martyn and a Moonshee Translating the Bible
Martyn's Persian Testament in Danger of Destruction
East India Chaplain to India, 1816, and First Anglican Bishop of Madras through the Church Missionary Society
Rev. James Peggs (Presentation Copy to Rev. Daniel Corrie, 1828)
Rev. James Peggs was a Christian missionary to Orissa, and he inscribed this presentation copy of his Suttees' Cry to Britain (1828) to Rev. Daniel Corrie.
Robert Morrison, D.D. (1782-1834), First Protestant Missionary to China
Initially Supported by the London Missionary Society, later, Employed by the East India Company as a translator of Chinese.
Robert Morrison (cameo image)
Nephew of William Carey, D.D., and author of the1836 Memoir of William Carey, D.D. Eustace also was a Baptist missionary to Bengal, 1814-1825.
Adoniram Judson, Baptist Missionary to Burma and Friend of William Carey
(1788-1850)
Ann Hasseltine Judson, Wife of Adoniram Judson
First President of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions (i.e., Triennial Convention)
J. D. G. Pike, BMS Missionary to Orissa and Friend of William Carey
(1784-1854; Secretary to the General Baptist Missionary Society)
"Courtesy Derby City Libraries (Derby Local Studies Library)" and Ronald Ellis, Derby, England
Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D. (1806-1878)
Scottish by birth, Duff arrived in Calcutta in 1830, where he began a Christian school.
Baptist Personalities: Great Britain, India, and America
Baptist Minister at Arnsby, Northamptonshire, England, and author of Help to Zion's Travellers, a favorite book of William Carey's
Baptist minister (1806-1826) at Harvey Lane Chapel, Leicester, England (Harvey Lane was the church that sent William Carey to India, 1793)
John Thomas, M.D., Surgeon, East India Company and First Baptist Missionary to Bengal
Dr. John Thomas, First Baptist Missionary to Bengal
William Staughton (1770-1829), One of the Founders of the Baptist Missionary Society
Author of The Baptist Mission in India, 1811
Andrew Fuller, Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society
Click here for more information on Andrew Fuller.
John Fawcett, D.D., (1740–1817)
Particular Baptist Minister; Recipient of Brown University's D.D., 1810; and Author of Devotional Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, 1811
John Bunyan, (1628-1688)
English Baptist Minister and Author of Pilgrim's Progress, a Devotional Classic
John Bunyan in Chains as His Wife Pleads for Him
John Bunyan, Statue in Bedford, England
Bedford Jail where John Bunyan Was Imprisoned
Joseph Ivimey, (1773-1834)
English Baptist Minister, Author of a Biography on John Bunyan, and the four volume, A History of the English Baptists
Baptist Evangelist and Missionary in Wales, "Prince of Welsh Preachers" (Thomas Armitage, 1887)
Samuel Pearce (1766-1799), One of the Founders of the Baptist Missionary Society
Samuel Pearce (1766-1799), 1801 published portrait
English Baptist Ministers, Late 1780s or Early 1790s
Krishna Pal, First Christian Convert of the English Baptists in India
For an introduction to Krishna Pal's hymnwriting, click here.
Ryland baptized Carey in the River Nene in 1783
Indian Christian Convert from the Ministry of William Ward and Krishna Pal
Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857)
Led British troops in resisting the India Mutiny in 1857, and was baptized by John Mack at Serampore, April 4, 1830.
Samuel Stillman, D.D, (1737-1807)
Longtime minister (1765-1807) of First Baptist Church, Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Samuel Stillman wrote a letter on September 1, 1806, recommending to Brown University that William Carey be awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. For images of this letter, click here: Obverse Reverse Address
Brown University, 1883, Collage
President of Brown University, 1827-1855
Compiler and Author of the Introductory Essay in the First American Edition of William Carey's Memoir (1836)
First Secretary of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions (i.e. Triennial Convention)
Nicholas Brown, Jr. (1769-1841)
Alumnus, Philanthropist, Treasurer, and Namesake of Brown University
Rhode Island College was renamed Brown University in 1804 in honor of Nicholas Brown; in 1805, the University conferred the Doctor of Divinity degree on William Carey.
Early biographer of William Carey, Belcher was born in Birmingham, England, and later served as pastor of Baptist churches in Canada and the United States.
Rev. John Williams (1767-1825)
Born in Wales, Williams immigrated to New York, New York, and was pastor of the Oliver Street Baptist Church [now Mariners' Temple Baptist Church]. During 1800-1816, Williams carried on an important correspondence with Dr. William Carey, which appears in Leighton and Mornay Williams, Serampore Letters: Being the Unpublished Correspondence of William Carey and others with John Williams, 1800-1816, With an introduction by Thomas Wright (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892). The significant role of John Williams in American missionary efforts is rehearsed on pp. iii-v. A memoir of his life appears in "Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. John Williams," The American Baptist Magazine, New Series, Vol. V (September 1825):257-72.
English Reformer and Bible Translator
Interpreters often refer to William Carey as the "Wycliffe of the East."
Philip Doddridge (1702-1751), an Evangelical Dissenting Minister, Northampton, England
Dr. Doddridge's House in Northampton, 1751
Rev. Thomas Scott (1747-1821), Anglican Bible Commentator
Scott influenced young Carey in his coming to see himself as a fallen sinner.
Rev. Thomas Scott (1747-1821), another image
John Wesley (1703-1791)
Revivalist who, along with his brother Charles, effected the establishment of Methodism from within the Anglican Church of the eighteenth century. William Carey considered Wesley a leader in the missionary movement, and referred to him in An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. (portrait courtesy of Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol, U.K.)
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
Anglican evangelist who became an associate of John and Charles Wesley at Oxford. Whitefield later joined John Wesley in Georgia, and became famous for his preaching in both the American Colonies and in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Whitefield helped initiate the Great Awakening.
Historian of the Roman Empire, critic of Christianity
William Roxburgh (1751-1815)
Eminent botanist, horticulturalist, and physician. From 1793 until his death, Roxburgh was the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Calcutta, India.
Sir William Jones (1746-1794), Linguistic Scholar Upon Whom Carey Relied
British Orientalist and Comparative Linguist, who Asserted that Sanscrit and Greek Derive from a Common Ancestor
British Statesman, Director in the East India Company, and Advocate of Christian Missions to India
(Anglican Chaplain and Missionary to Bengal)
(Anglican Clergyman who wrote 1808 article in the Edinburgh Review critical of Serampore mission).
(1783-1826; Anglican Bishop of Calcutta)
To read some of Heber's famous quotations, click here or here.
Death Scene of the Anglican Bishop of Calcutta, Reginald Heber (1783-1826), a friend of Carey's
Heber is remembered for his hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy." Also, click here and here.
(Anglican Lord Bishop of Calcutta, 1832)
Princess Victoria (1819-1901), August 10, 1835
Queen Victoria, 1837-1901
John Clark Marshman (1794-1877) with Obituary John Clark Marshman (image alone)
Son of Joshua and Hannah Marshman, John Clark Marshman was a journalist and historian, co-founder with his father of the Friend of India, and the author of numerous histories on British India.
(click here for a biography of Burke; Warren Hastings served as the British Governor-General of Bengal, 1772-1785, and he held the view that English standards of morality and law should not apply to Indian affairs. For portraits of Hastings, click here.)
William Carey, D.D. (1769-1846)
Sometimes confused with William Carey, D.D., the Baptist missionary to India, this is an image of William Carey, D.D., most frequently remembered as the headmaster of Westminster School and, later, Anglican Bishop of Exeter and St. Asaph.
Marquess of Wellesley's Signature, 1833
(Prior to Wellesley's departure from Bengal in 1805, Carey helped persuade him to abolish some native cruelties [infanticide?].)
Governor, Bengal, 1755-1760; 1764-1767
Governor-General, British India, 1786-1793, 1805
The Right Hon. the Earl of Minto
Governor-General, British India, 1807-1813
Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Marquis of Hastings
Governor-General, British India, 1813-1823
Governor-General, British India, 1828-1835
Major General Sir Henry Havelock
Husband of Hannah Marshman (daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Joshua Marshman)
Governor-General, British India, 1774-1786
Hastings, 1782 Hastings, 1798 Hastings, 1803 Hastings, 1832 "Warren Hastings," Dictionary of National Biography (1891)
Discovery of the Body of Tippoo Saib at Seringapatam, India, May 4, 1799
Lord Minto's Deputy Secretary, 1809-1810
Deputy-Governor of Bengal, 1833-1834
Provisional Governor-General, British India, 1835-1836
Richard, Marquis of Wellesley (as a young man)
Governor-General, British India, 1798-1805
Governor-General, British India, 1798-1805
Governor-General, British India, 1823-1828
Arthur Wellesley, Field Marshal His Grace Duke of Wellington
British Commander against Tippoo Sultan at Mysore, India, 1799
William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806)
British Prime Minister, 1783-1801, 1804-1806
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (Another Portrait)
English Historian and Statesman
Serving on the Supreme Council of India, Macaulay lived in Calcutta, 1834-1838. In his "Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education," Macaulay argued for the superiority of western education, language, and literature in comparison to like categories in India.
Friar Lane Baptist Chapel, Nottingham, England (Site of Carey's "Deathless Sermon")
Friar Lane Baptist Chapel Site, Nottingham, England, 1903
Plaque Commemorating Carey's Deathless Sermon, Nottingham, England, 1903
Harvey Lane Chapel, Carey's Pastorate in Leicester, England, 1789-1793
Carey Baptist Church, Moulton, Northamptonshire
Chapel in Nottingham, England, Site of Carey's Famous Sermon, May 30, 1792
Interior of Andrew Fuller's Chapel, Kettering, England
South West View of Northampton, ca. 1770
Carey Memorial Baptist Church, Kettering, England
Kettering Parish Church, Kettering, England, 1843
(Anglican Church built in the 14th - 15th centuries)
Kettering Parish Church Nave, Kettering, England, 1843
(Anglican Church built in the 14th - 15th centuries)
All Saints Church, Kettering, Northamptonshire
Holdenby House, Northamptonshire, 1787
(About 400 years old, Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) stayed in this house, and the house was the prison for her successor Charles I.)
St. Sepulchre's Church, Northampton, England
(published by S. Hooper, 1784, this image shows an early 12th-century Norman church building)
St. Sepulchre's Church, Northampton, England
(20th century post card)
St. Sepulchre's Church, Northampton, England
(Photograph courtesy of Ronald Ellis, Derby, England)
St. Giles Church, Northampton, England
(20th century post card)
Queen Eleanor's Cross, Northampton
(20th century post card image of one of twelve memorials built for Queen Eleanor after her death in 1290. Crosses were erected on the twelve sites where her body lay in rest on its journey from Nottingham to Westminster Abbey.)
Leadenhall Street, London
1800-1929
Belvoir St. Baptist Chapel, 1845
Leicester, England
Dr. Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854)
Danish born physician and botanist. Employed by the East India Company in Calcutta, Wallich was a good friend of Carey's. Wallich also was superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, and Wallich and Carey both contributed to Flora Indica, vol. 2.
Rev. Abdul Masih, First Indian Clergyman in Anglican Church
Moslem Converted to Christianity through the Influence of Rev. Henry Martyn of the Church Missionary Society
Aaron, Ordained Indian Lutheran Minister, 1733
Converted in 1718 under the Christian missionary work of Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, Aaron ministered in the district of Tanjore.
First Mission House in North India, Dinajpoor
Kali Temple, Hindu Mosque on the Hooghly River near Calcutta
The Kali Temple was built in 1809 (or Dakhineswar Kali Temple, 1850s?), and is an ancient site of Hindu pilgrimage.
Temple of Juggernaut, Puri, India
This sacred temple was built about the year 1198, by Rajah Anonda Bheem Deb, in Orissa.
William Ward, A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos: Including a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from Their Principal Works, II: 317 and II:318 describes the religious ceremony associated with the Temple.
Procession of the Juggernaut at the Hindu Festival of Rutt Jattra
The Rutt Jatthra, A Hindoo Festival Held at Juggernauth, in Orissa, from a Native Drawing, 1857
Hindoo Fakeer Completing His Vow
A View of All Religions; and the Religious Ceremonies of All Nations at the Present Day in Four Parts. Part I. Christianity. Part II. Judaism. Part III. Mahometanism. Part IV. Paganism. Including an Abridgement of "The Idolatry of the Hindoos; Their History, Literature, Religion, Manners, and Customs, &c. by William Ward, D. D., of Serampore." With the Religion and Ceremonies of Other Pagan Nations. Compiled and Selected from the best Authorities, by Thomas Robbins, Minister of the Gospel in East-Windsor, Conn. 3rd ed., Hartford, 1824.
Procession of the Juggernaut Car
Hindu Bathing in the Holy River Ganges
View of Cawnpore from the Ganges River
(Rev. Henry Martyn, a friend of Carey's, preached at Cawnpore, 1809-1810)
Last Effort and Fall of Tippoo Sultan
Seringapatam, India, May 4, 1799
Charge of the Highlanders before Cawnpore (Kanpur), under General Havelock
(Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), who led British troops in resisting the India Mutiny in 1857, was baptized by John Mack at Serampore on April 4, 1830)
Calcutta - A View of the Hoogly, 1845
View of Calcutta from The Esplanade
South Barrack, Fort William College, Calcutta
Bishop's College, Calcutta, 1833
Indian Bazar (i.e., Market) in Calcutta
Brahma, the Hindu Deity of Creation
Shiva, the Hindu Deity of Destruction and Regeneration
Krishna, Hindu Deity in Varied Incarnations
Kali, Hindu Goddess with Decapitated Sacrificial Victim
Hindu Religious Ceremony with Self-Inflicted Tortures
Hindu Religious Devotion at Poojah
Walking on Coals--Hindu Devotion
Body Sacrifice on Iron Bed--Hindu Devotion
Neck Sacrifice--Hindu Devotion
Suttee (another image)
This is one of the most famous images of a suttee, and it appeared in James Peggs's 1828 essay The Suttees’ Cry to Britain. Peggs was a Christian missionary to Orissa.
Names, Castes, Date of Burning, Police Jurisdiction, etc., of Suttees in Various Zillahs of Bengal
Hindoo Widows. Copies of Extracts of All Communications and Correspondence, Relative to the Burning of Widows on the Funeral Piles of their Husbands; With Such Proceedings as May Have Been Had Thereon, in the Court of Directors since the 5th July 1825; With a Detailed Statement of the Number of Suttees since the Year 1825; With Copies of All Reports, Statements, or Other Documents, upon the Subject; Which May Have Been Received in India, or by the East India Company, Which Have Not Already Been Presented. London: House of Commons, 1827. Page 120.
Hindu Burial of Live Widows, 1820s
Mohammedan Festival of the Mohurrun
Extremes of the Caste System in India
Bible Translators at Work in India
Rev. Henry Martyn's Pagoda, Serampur
(Martyn, an Anglican missionary and friend of Carey's, used this structure as a place of study)
The Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, India
Matthew 4:16 in Various Eastern Languages
Christian Preaching in an Open Festival
A Hindu at the Feet of His Spiritual Guru or Brahman
Rajah Seated upon Gold-Canopied Bed with Three Attendants (by Chataignon)
Krishna Pal, Carey's first Hindu Convert Worked as a Carpenter
Infanticide at the Ganges River, India
Infanticide in India, as Practiced in the Temple of Canesa, Benares
Calcutta Harbor from a Garden House View (1838)
Calcutta View from the Esplanade (ca. 1850)
Government House, Calcutta, 1827
Suttee of an Indian Widow (1846)
Funeral Pile of a Husband in Hindoostan
"Railways in India.--The Calcutta Railway," 1853
Scenes of India in the Early 1830s
This link includes twenty-five images from various locations in India.
(for a description of the Parsees, click here)
Founders of the National Missionary Society of India, 1905
Raja Rammohun Roy (Indian Government Stamp)
Brochure for Raja Rammohun Roy Stamp
Images, ca. 1824
Image and Signature from The Precepts of Jesus, New York, 1825
Rammohun Roy (another image)
Ship Image in William Ward Memoir
William Carey Pulpit, Calcutta, India
(Dr. Earl Kelly in photo)
Interior of Lal Bazaar Chapel, Calcutta
Contemporary "Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things"--Hyderabad, India
(photo courtesy of Callie Carruth Harper)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Bengali Poet and Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913
"Carey was the pioneer of the revived interest in the vernaculars.”
John J. Pool (Late of Calcutta) Scenes and Stories from the Land of Idols (London: Ward, Lock, & Bowden, Ltd., 1894).
Ascetic at Kali Temple, Calcutta
Women of Varied Castes in India
Indigo Manufacture in Tirhoot, Bengal, 1869 (including text description)
Selected Scenes of India's Sites, Culture, and People from a 19th Century Missionary's Perspective
Created: January 11, 2001 Updated: August 18, 2021