"II Malabar: Tschombala-Kotageri 1905 / Letters and Reports from India, North Kerala and the Nilagiris, Chombala to Kotageri 1905."

This volume consists of the following sections: Chombala (21 documents); Calicut (70); Codacal (15); Waniyankulam (10); Palghat (25); Keti (16); Ootacamund (8) and Kotageri (5). The documents have been numbered consecutively through the two "Malabar" volumes for 1905 (i.e. C-1.156 and C-1.157). Select list of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes): Mahé: Purchase of a plot of land, and construction of a chapel, Chombala 144-147. General administration (examination, promotion, dismissal, re-instatement, retirement etc) of named catechists and teachers: Chombala 148; Calicut 173-5; Codacal 225-8, Waniyankulam 241, 244; Palghat 271; Keti 274-8, 281, 284-6. Staffing of, and building in, specific named outstations: Calicut 156-7, 178-181; Codacal 224; Waniyankulam 240; Palghat 249, 268; Ootacamund 290-2. General reports on travelling evangelism: Chombala 149 & 153; Calicut 219; Keti 288 On the 50th birthday of the teacher Benjamin George (b. Cannanore, in 1905 teacher in Muweratta (Chombala 150). Youth groups: (Calicut 154, 165, 168) Use of a gift of SFr. 500.- to the Hospital in Calicut (Calicut 160) A European tailor, presumably in the employment of the Basel Mission Trading Company (Christian or Christoph Renz) asks to be employed in direct mission work (Calicut 159, 162-4) Details of Basel Mission Womens’ Work (Calicut 158-9, 161, 166, 171-2, 182, 189-91, 193, 198-200, 207, 212, 213, 215); Relation of the Basel Mission leprosy refuge to the Edinburgh Mission to Lepers (Calicut 192) Payment of Dressers in the Basel medical mission (Calicut 194-7) Considerable discussion about the opening of a College or High School in Calicut (Calicut 176, 204, 206, 208-9, 220, 223). Visit of the Hindu evangelist Bhavani Chankara in Calicut (Calicut 214 "He who is not against us is for us"!) Impact of industrial work on behaviour in the Codacal congregation (Codacal 232) Purchase of maps and gymnastic equipment for the school in Ottapalam (Waniyankulam 242); purchase of furniture for a school in Palghat (Palghat 250-252) On Muslims (Waniyinkulam 245-6) The missionary Singer wants to return home via Palestine (Palghat 266-7) In Keti a Casamajor Mission Fund is still being administered (Keti 279); The Badaga Death Custom Manewella in Todanaad (Keti 296). NB The volumes of C-1 for 1906 (see following texts) have been slightly muddled. The volume labelled "I Malabar" (C-1.159) comes BEFORE the volume labelled "Kanara" (C-1.160).

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