Ebook: A Dictionary of High and Colloquial Malayalim and English

Cottayam: The Church Mission Press, 1846. — 855 p.Бэйли Б. Малаялам-английский словарь литературной и разговорной лексики.Benjamin Bailey (1791—1871) was a British Church of England missionary in Kerala for 34 years. He was ordained 1815 and moved to Kerala in 1816 where he founded a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 established a printing press. He translated the Bible into Malayalam and 1846 published the first English-Malayalam dictionary. He finally left Travancore in 1850.
A life-size bronze statue of Bailey was installed at the Municipal Park at Nagampadam on 30 September 1996. The Indian Express daily newspaper reported on 22 December 1996: As a land of letters, Kottayam is definitely indebted to Benjamin Bailey, the English missionary who came to Kerala, in Kottayam in 1816. In all sense Rev. Bailey is the architect of modern Kottayam. Recently, a statue was erected near the municipal park in Kottayam in his memory.