"Gebietsakten Indien, 1851 / Letters and Reports from India, 1851."

NB This volume has neither a general index nor individual indexes to its separate parts. By the end of the volume the orthodox structure of sections corresponding to individual mission stations is visible, in the sense that the sheets of strong grey paper usually used at this time to separate one section from another are present, though they are smaller in format that of the dominant letters, and so not easy to find. The sections which can be identified are (in the order in which they appear): Mulki; a very small indeterminate section following the letters from Mulki; Dharwad; Hubli; Gadag Betgeri; Malasamudra (very little); Guledagudda / Gadag Betgeri (again) (very small section); Cannanore; Tellicherry; Chombala; Calicut; Kaity. The beginning of the volume consists of a large single section which takes up a quarter to a third of the whole. It seems to be a mixture of correspondence from the Basel Mission’s leading officials in India, and from the Mangalore station. This section includes some documents in English, some of them written by Indian members of the mission staff, and some documents in Kannada, again written by Indian members of the mission staff. Since this volume is neither indexed nor numbered through great care must be taken in referring to its contents, and researchers must be aware that as things stand it will be very difficult to identify a document unambiguously in such a way that other scholars will be able to find it. It is unusually large for this period of the Basel Mission in India. The contents between the covers are approx. 5 cm thick.

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