"Kanara 1905 / Letters and Reports from India: Southern Karnataka 1905"

This volume consists of the following sections: South Kanara District Executive Committee (48 documents); Mangalore (63); Mulki (36), Udipi (39); Karkala (20); Basrur (4); Kasergod (7); Puttur (8); Mercara (14); Anandapur (17). Select list of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes): Two prayer-texts proposed for the liturgy for the Tulu Communion (South Kanara District Executive Committee document 4). Tulu Language Commission (ibid 31) Purchasing and selling land in outstations (ibid 1) No District Conference in 1905 (South Kanara District Executive Committee 27) Examinations (inter al "missionary examination"), the promotion of named teachers, scholarships, debts, application to go on pension (South Kanara District Executive Committee 2, 5, 7, 10-11, 18, 20-26, 43, 45: Mulki 121, 123-4; Udipi 139) Proposals for improvement of music education for teachers (South Kanara District Executive Committee 8-9, 18) Provision of horses and vehicles (ibid 13-17) Proposal to build a mud wall around the "so-called cattle stations on the road between Panemangalur and Mercara" [sic] (ibid 30). Catechists and Evangelists - promotions, refresher courses etc (South Kanara District Executive Committee 39-42, 44, Udipi 150-1) Enlarging the church in Jeppu (Mangalore 49-50) Instructions for Pastor Winfried Micha in Jeppu, and his autobiography in English (Mangalore 51-52). New equipment for the printing press and the tile works (Mangalore 53) The missionaries’ use of Kittel’s Kannada Grammar (Mangalore 59) The weekly periodical "Satyadipike", minutes of the Bookshop Commission (Mangalore 60) Formal complaint by T. Roberts about the role of missionaries and church financing and the Mission’s response (Mangalore 63-66). Roberts starts "The Indian Christian Journal" (Mangalore 83-4). 16-page typed document in German on the "newest movements among our native christians" (Mangalore 87). The Mangalore pastors petition for higher salaries (Mangalore 88). NB an unusually high proportion of the Quarterly and Annual Reports from Mangalore are written by women (Mangalore 92-5, 97-9, 110-111). Pastor Immanuel Soan’s Annual Report on the Balmatta congregation exists in its English original (Mangalore 103). Two other reports by indigenous pastors (on Jeppu and Madikerigudde) and by an Envagelist on his work in Mangalore exist only in German translation (Mangalore 105-107). Unusually 12 schools in Mangalore and district are listed by name in the index entries to two Annual Reports devoted to education (Mangalore 108-9). Printed examination papers for the Lower Secondary Examination Dec. 1904 (Mulki 113- 120) Request for permission to open a new school in Parangadi (Mulki 122) Agriculture "in our mission congregations" (Mulki 125) Report on the outstation Santur (Mulki 126) The non-christians in Mulki and the Annual Report for the congregation in Mulki (German translation of documents by Pastor Gojar) (Mulki 128 & 135) Parsees in India (Mulki 129) General reports on travelling evangelisation (Mulki 133; Mercara 223 (journey to Somwarpet) and 227); . Closing the outstation at Barkur (Udipi 140-1, Basrur 195) Various building projects in Udipi and district (Udipi 136-8, 143-148, 152-155, 157-161, 165 Land purchase Perdur and Chara (Udipi 162-4); Bolwar (Puttur 208); German translations of various reports by indigenous pastors, catechists and evangelists (S. Furtado & G. Pranaya, Udipi 169-171, 174*; Henry Roberts, G. Soans and W. Kunders, Kasergod 204-5; *NB the numbering at the end of the Udipi section is not as reliable as usual - what is intended as 174 has no number. Various building projects in Karkal and district (Karkala 177-8, 180-9) Conversions in the Karkal district, including 32 baptisms on one occasion (Karkala 190, 192) Journey from Basrur to Bombay and back, with a visit to Puna and to Pandita Ramabai (Basrur 196) Annual report in English of the Evangelist Stephan Jathanna (Basrur 197). Application to dig out a well in Bolwar (Puttur 207, 212) The school in Bolwar (Puttur 209-210) Visit to the "King" in Vitla (Puttur 211) A missionary resigns in Mercara (Mercara 214-217; Anandapur 229) The Bhagamandala festival in Kurg (Mercara 225). Two photographs at Mercara 221 and 222. Kurg petition for the upgrading of the school with boarding possibilities (Anandapur 130-131) A period of inflation (Anandapur 243)

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