India
Moving to India in 1945, he began to work across location and while in Uttar Pradesh, he stayed as a guest with an Indian doctor, P. J. Chandy and his family. The sister of his host, Elizabeth Jacob (Baker called her "Kuni"), worked as a doctor in Hyderabad with the same leprosy organization. The two met and decided to marry but there was considerable resistance and so they decided to wait. The work and travel allowed them only brief periods of time together. They both found that they did not agree entirely with the ideas of the mission and in 1948 both of the left the organization and got married. They travelled to the district of Pithoragarh on a honeymoon trek. The availability of a doctor in the region that they travelled to led to the locals visiting them in numbers, even offering them a place to stay and set up clinic. The Bakers settled here and lived on for sixteen years before moving to Vakamon in Kerala in 1963 and some years later to Trivandrum. He became an Indian citizen in 1988.
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