On 9 July 1706 Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg stepped ashore at the Danish outpost of Tranquebar as the first Protestant missionary to India. He learned Tamil, opened schools, and translated the New Testament into Tamil — putting Scripture into an Indian language in print for the first time.
His page in Missions in India →Propagation of the Gospel in the East (Philipps translation, 1710s) — public domain.
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