About Benjamin Bailey

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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Benjamin Bailey

translator of the Bible into Malayalam (1791–1871)

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About Benjamin Bailey

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Occupation: translator, Bible translator
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: 1791
Died: April 3, 1871

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