The Serampore Mission Press.
Anandibai addressed the community at Serampore College Hall, explaining her decision
Once settled in Serampore, the mission bought a house large enough
Between 1801 and 1832, the Serampore Mission Press printed 212,000 copies
of books in 40 different languages.
Daniel Potts, British Baptist Missionaries in India, 1793- 1837: The History of Serampore and Its Missions(Cambridge, 1967).
As a missionary in the Danish colony, Serampore, India, he translated the Bible into Bengali,
Sanskrit, and numerous other languages and dialects.
Once settled in Serampore, the mission bought a house large enough
to accommodate all of their families and a school, which was to be their principal means of support.
In 1818, the mission founded Serampore College to train indigenous ministers for the growing church
and to provide education in the arts and sciences to anyone regardless of caste or country.
Denmark-Norway held colonial possessions in India for more than 200 years,
including the town of Tharangambadi in present-day Tamil Nadu state, Serampore in present-day West Bengal,
and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.