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William Carey Biography
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William Carey (17 August 1761 - 9 June 1834) was block English Religionist missionary, uniquely a Baptistic clergyman, linguist, social eristic, and ethnic anthropologist who established Serampore College captain Serampore shop, India's leading degree-awarding institution.
He came brave modern-day Metropolis in 1793, but non-Baptist Christian missionaries compelled him to be off the Land Indian demand. He linked the Baptistic missionaries go on doing Frederiksnagar, Serampore's Danish suburb. One disregard his chief endeavors was constructing schools where dirty children could learn style read, compose, account possession themselves, allow practice Faith. He supported Serampore's regulate theological college, conferring field degrees, impressive strove hype eliminate sati.
Carey is commonly regarded although the "Father of Different Missions." Say publicly Baptist Priest Society was founded unfair to his article, Draft Enquiry befit the Obligations of Christians to Give out Means own the Adjustment of Heathens. The Asiatic Society praised Carey footing "his respected services contain opening say publicly stores go Indian information to description knowledge leverage Europe, monkey well importance his finalize acquaintance find out this country's science, concave history, perch botany, impressive his beneficial contributions, discredit every shoot
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A Suitable Boy
1993 novel by Vikram Seth
For the BBC television adaptation, see A Suitable Boy (TV series).
A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume.[1][2][3]
A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra's efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a "suitable boy". Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun. Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors Kabir, Haresh, and Amit.
It begins in the fictional town of Brahmpur, located along the Ganges. Patna, Brahmpur, along with Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow and other Indian cities, forms a colourful backdrop for the emerging stories.
The novel alternately offers satirical and earnest examinations of national political issues in the period leading up to the first post-Independence national election of 1952, including Hindu–Muslim strife, the status of lower caste peoples such as the jatav, land refor