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Updated: May 29, 2025
Claudius Buchanan declares that Christian tracts had been translated into Bengali one written by the Bishop of Sodor and Man and that in the time of Warren Hastings Hindoo Christians had preached to their countrymen in the city. The "heathen" were probably Portuguese descendants, in whose language Kiernander preached as the lingua franca of the time.
The only converted Hindoo known of in Northern India up to that time was Guneshan Dass, of Delhi, who when a boy joined Clive's army, who was the first man of caste to visit England, and who, on his return with the Calcutta Supreme Court Judges in 1774 as Persian interpreter and translator, was baptised by Kiernander, Mr. justice Chambers being sponsor.
Bengal Carey and Thomas appointed missionaries to Bengal The farewell at Leicester John Thomas, first medical missionary Carey's letter to his father The Company's "abominable monopoly" The voyage Carey's aspirations for world-wide missions Lands at Calcutta His description of Bengal in 1793 Contrast presented by Carey to Clive, Hastings, and Cornwallis The spiritual founder of an Indian Empire of Christian Britain Bengal and the famine of 1769-70 The Decennial Settlement declared permanent Effects on the landed classes Obstacles to Carey's work East India Company at its worst Hindooism and the Bengalees in 1793 Position of Hindoo women Missionary attempts before Carey's Ziegenbalg and Schwartz Kiernander and the chaplains Hindooised state of Anglo-Indian society and its reaction on England Guneshan Dass, the first caste Hindoo to visit England William Carey had no predecessor.
The literature of the close of the eighteenth century is full of alarm lest the English character should be corrupted, and lest the balance of the constitution should be upset. Kiernander is said to have been the means of converting 209 heathens and 380 Romanists, of whom three were priests, during the twenty-eight years of his Calcutta career.
Mary's Church, Madras, expresses its gratitude to Schwartz for his political services. It was Clive himself who brought to Calcutta the first missionary, Kiernander the Swede, but he was rather a chaplain, or a missionary to the Portuguese, who were nominal Christians of the lowest Romanist type.
There they rented a small house from the German hotel-keeper, beside the Augustinian priory and oldest church in North India, which dates from 1599 and is still in good order. There they met Kiernander, then at the great age of eighty-four. Daily they preached or talked to the people.
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