 Like many other European travelers who visited the College, he recorded that at this time it had 3,000 students, from all the missions of Asia.Its Library was one of the biggest in Asia, and the first printing press was mounted there.As a result of decades of lobbying by the likes of William Wilberforce, and Charles Grant, the 1813 renewal of East India Company's charter carried a duty to educate, and assist previously excluded Christian missionaries to educate the population, in addition to the Company's corporate activities.