"Malabar 1900 / Letters and Reports from India: North Kerala and the Nilgiris, 1900."

This volume consists of sections for the Malabar District Executive Committee (43 documents); Cannanore (30); Talatscheri (27); Chombala (18); Calicut (56); Codacal (32); Waniyankulam (8); Palghat (14); Keti (34); Kotageri (14). Select list of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes: The Malayalam Bible revision (Malabar District Executive Committee 19; Keti 242) No district conference in 1900 (Malabar District Executive Committee 20) Refresher course for teachers and catechists (Malabar District Executive Committee 28-31) Use of a gift to the Mission by a Youth Group in Kaiserslautern (Cannanore 60) Temple festivals (Cannanore 62, 63) Travelling evangelism (Cannanore 64, 66 & 70 - G. Peter), Talatscheri 99; Chombala 113 & 117; Wayankulam 220). Bible Women (Cannanore 71). Pastor Tobias Tschembenkoden on the congregation in Chowa (Cannanore 72) Ordination of Catechist Noah Edapalam (Talatscheri 75-6). Drought and first rain (Telatscheri 88) Reports from indigenous pastors on their work: Talatscheri 94, 97 and 99; Calicut 161 & 173; Codacal 208 & 214; Palghat 234 & 237; Kotageri 278, 284 - some, but not all, available in English Should Peramba continue to be an outstation with a catechist? (Chombala 106-7). Annascherry on the other hand should be definitively a site for a catechist (Calicut 125-6) Landholdings in Chombala (Chombala 108-111) Biographical material about Maria Tschakapan and her sister (Chombala 114) Tasks for Sister Anna Ehrensperger (Calicut 118); Käthe Fritz: first impressions of India (Calicut 162); Annual Reports by the Misses Ehrensperger and Fritz (respectively in the Girls' School and in the Hospital) (Calicut 169 & 170). An Indian candidate for medical missions (Calicut 118-124) Payment for Dr Stokes' bicycle (Calicut 127). Extension of maternity ward in Calicut (Calicut 129-130). Pastor John Padiath dies of cholera (Calicut 150-151, 163) Wilhelm Haas a European tailor working in the Mission Industry, applies to join the Basel Mission and be recognised as a member of the Mission fellowship (Calicut 152-155) On leprosy work in Calicut (Calicut 146, 159) Annual Report of the Tile Works in Puttiarakal (Calicut 172). Mission industry in Codacal (Codacal 175-178, 181, 200, 209, 215) including transfer of rice-fields belonging to the Tile Works, and the beginning of a farming project. An "Industry Conference" was held in Codacal in June (Codacal 183-190). It is headed "Wage Problems". Unemployed members of the congregation in Codacal to be moved to Palghat (Codacal 196-9; Palghat 230-231). There is an Annual Report (Codacal 212-3) covering the Boarding School for Orphans and the Agricultural School The Lower Secondary School in Ottapalam applies for funds for a library, gymnastic equipment and a latrine (Waniyankulam 217) Life History of the Evangelist Ashamayan Tumaran (Wayankulam 219): Plague, famine and earthquake (Palghat 233). On the most-read Hindu literature (Palghat 235) Keti mission compound's water supply and other people who have the right to benefit from it (Keti 255-258, 261-3) On money originally intended for famine relief (Keti 265, Kotageri 277) 48 Badagas baptised (Kotageri 281-2) Correspondence and reports for 1901 and the following years: These are organised in four archive volumes, instead of three as in 1900. The Malabar correspondence is divided into two - see the detailed notes on C-1.140 and C-1.141.

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