"Gebietsakten Indien. Canara. 1895 / Letters and Reports from India. Southern Karnataka. 1895"

This volume contains the following sections: Kanara District Executive Committee (15 documents); Mangalore (77); Mulki (15); Udipi (59); Karkal (13); Basrur (21); Honowar 12); Kasergod (22); Mercara/Madikeri 17); Anandapoor (6). Selection of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes): How to cover costs incurred by catechists and teachers in moving from one posting to another (Kanara District document 8); District Conference and Synod (October 29-30) (Kanara District 9-11), includes reports on preaching to non-christians; starting a Christian High School; discussion as to which places should have indigenous pastors, and who could be promoted to the rank of pastor (with a recommendation that T. Furtado should be ordained). Proposed changes in the congregational regulations about the election of congregational elders (Mangalore 20) Discussion on the Tulu reading book ("Fibel") (Mangalore 31-36) On the proposal for a Christian High School (Mangalore 38-43, 64-6). Changing the format of Sabhaptra, the Kannada periodical for congregations (Mangalore 45-61 - 16 documents from missionaries, none from indigenous people). Refresher course for Catechists (Mangalore 73). The fire in Basrur (Mangalore 74, Basrur 172, 174) Missionary critique of a lecture on "The Place of Hinduism in the Story of the World" (Mangalore 75) Comparison between Mangalore and Udipi (Mangalore 207) An elderly weaver converts (Mangalore 79) Industry and Mission (Mangalore 80) The Bramo Samaj and its attitude to the Gospel in Mangalore (Mangalore 85) There are separate reports by Indian personnel about Bockapatna (Mangalore 90), Jeppu (Mangalore 91) and Puttur (Mangalore 86 & 92); Malapu (Udipi 157). Rebellious elements in the Mulki congregation (Mulki 100 (by Pastor Diego Fernandez, translated), 101 & 102, 105 & 106). Udipi documents 110-130 are concerned with conflicts, mostly between missionaries, about the case of one David Soana in Gudde Report on the tile-works in Malpe (Udipi 148) A cook on the mission compound in Karkal gets into difficulties buying a piece of land to grow rice (Karkal 160) Reception for pilgrims returning from Benares (Karkal 170) Mahalinga, the deity which protects Basrur (Basrur 175) T. Furtado on a Hindu festival in Kollur (Basrur 176) (two other reports by T. Furtado are at Basrur 178 & 180) Reports on Keilkeri (Basrur 177, 179 & 181); On Karki (Honor 189 & 190) Reports on preaching journeys by S. Bunyan translated at Honowar 192 & 195 (195 is concerned with goldsmiths) A discussion about the transfer of the catechist Henry Roberts initiated by his brother Thomas, who was magistrate in Kasergod (Kasergod 197-211). "The Alibhuta in Paristhana bei Kumbla" (Kasergod 216) On the completion of a municipal water-supply project (Mercara 220-2) The Hindu use of the Tibetan life of Issa (Mercara 232). Tables with the list of pupils in the boys’ boarding school in Udipi (a) who have left in 1895 and (b) who entered and are still there are unbound between the front end-papers.

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