{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 70,
  "chapterName": "1811. Ward’s Description of the Serampore Translations Establishment",
  "pageFrom": 87,
  "pageTo": 87,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 87,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n87\ndirectly towards the tribunal of the Inquisition, described by Dellon,\nin which is the lofty Crucifix. I sat down on a form, and wrote\n:some notes, and then desired one of the attendants to carry in my\nname to the Inquisitor. As I walked up the Hall, I saw a poor\nwoman sitting by herself, on a bench by the wall, apparently in a\ndisconsolate state of mind. She clasped her hands as I passed,\nand gave me a look expressive of her distress. This sight chilled\nmy spirits. The familiars told me she was waiting there to be called\nup before the tribunal of the Inquisition. While I was asking\nquestions concerning her crime, the second Inquisitor came out in\nevident trepidation, and was about to complain of the intrusion;\nwhen I informed him I had come back for the letter from the chief\nInquisitor. He said it should be sent after me to Goa; and he\nconducted me with a quick step towards the door. As we passed\nthe poor woman I pointed to her, and said to him with some\nemphasis, Behold, Father, another victim of the holy Inquisition!'\nHe answered nothing. When we arrived at the head of the great\nstair, he bowed, and I took my last leave of Josephus a Doloribus,\nwithout uttering a word.\n70. WARD'S DESCRIPTION OF THE SERAMPORE\nTRANSLATIONS ESTABLISHMENT (1811 A.D.)\nThe Serampore Mission's project to translate the Christian scrip-\ntures into a large number of Indian and other Asian languages required\na well organised translation and printing effort. By the time William\nCarey died in 1834 some six versions of the entire Bible had been\npublished, together with twenty-three versions of the New Testa-\nment, and smaller portions in ten other languages. The missionary-\nprinter, William Ward, gave the following account of the more prac-\ntical side of the project in a letter written to a cousin in England late\nin 1811. Cited in S. Pearce Carey, William Carey, p. 283.\nAs you enter, you see your cousin, in a small room, dressed in a\nwhite jacket, reading or writing, and looking over the office, which\nis more than 170 han 170 feet long. There you find Indians translating the\nScriptures into the different tongues, or correcting proof-sheets.\nYou observe, laid out in cases, types in Arabic, Persian, Nagari,\nTelugu, Panjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Chinese, Oriya, Burmese,\nKanarese, Greek, Hebrew and English. Hindus, Mussulmans\nand Christian Indians are busy, composing, correcting, distri-\nbuting. Next are four men throwing off the Scripture sheets in\nthe different languages; others folding the sheets and delivering\nthem to the large store-room; and six Mussulmans do the binding.\nBeyond the office are the varied type-castors, besides a group of\nmen making ink; and in a spacious open-walled-round place,\nour paper-mill, for we manufacture our own paper.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}