because he was a missionary and that is where he went on his first mission
The best information I have shows the 1st recorded missionary to India to be William Carey, a baptist from England, arriving in India in 1793http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/biocarey.html
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Lord William Penting the Viceroy of India
First to fly around the world non-stop in his own plane
william Bentinck
William Carey William Carey was the first English missionary to India in 1793.
William Carey Graves was born in 1895.
William Carey Graves died in 1966.
William Carey Mathes was born in 1899.
William Carey Mathes died in 1967.
William Carey University was created in 1906.
William Carey Crane was born in 1816.
William Carey Crane died in 1885.
William Carey - courtier - was born in 1495.
William P. Carey died in 2012.
William P. Carey was born in 1930.
The population of William Carey Library is 2,006.