"Papers from the office of the General School Inspector, Mangalore, 1912-15"

Contents evidently removed from a loose-leaf file, about 2.5 cm of paper. Condition: fairly good. File kept in the office of the Basel Mission’s General School Inspector 1913-1916. Reverse chronological order. Mostly incoming letters, including tissue-paper copies of letters from Basel which passed over the desk of the General School Inspector on the way to their ultimate destinations. Mostly German, a fair number of the documents in the file are typewritten. Some letters from correspondents in India, including correspondence with local education officials of the Government. A useful file. Many of the letters from Basel signal that the Inspector there has read the reports and minutes he has been sent, and sends his comments on them. A letter of 14th May 1914 (NB filed with letters from May 1913) documents the kind of centralisation that the Basel Mission was capable of - a letter from the Inpector in Basel about the position on the pay scale of two teachers in Mangalore. And there are frequent references to relations with the Government: a document of 21st June 1913 discusses the implication of Government support for a BM primary school intended (from the point of view of the Government) for "Christians, Billavas and other untouchables".

1912

1915

1912-1915

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