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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
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      "chunk_data": "70. WARD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SERAMPORE TRANSLATIONS ESTABLISHMENT (1811 A.D.)\nThe Serampore Mission's project to translate the Christian scriptures into a large number of Indian and other Asian languages required a well organised translation and printing effort. By the time William Carey died in 1834 some six versions of the entire Bible had been published, together with twenty-three versions of the New Testament, and smaller portions in ten other languages. The missionary-printer, William Ward, gave the following account of the more practical side of the project in a letter written to a cousin in England late in 1811. Cited in S. Pearce Carey, William Carey, p. 283.",
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      "chunk_data": "There you find Indians translating the Scriptures into the different tongues, or correcting proof-sheets.",
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