"Verschiedene MSS 1915-1933"

Miscellaneous MSS 1915-1933. In 5/06 the contents of this box were unordered and unindexed. They probably originate in one of the leading offices of the Mission House in Basel, include a lot of original documentation in English from India, and a lot of translations of English documents for discussion by members of the Basel Mission Committee and the BM Inspektoren. The information about its contents given below is a preliminary listing. The bulk of the papers are from the 1920s. The newest papers are from 1939. Some papers from the First World War and the question of the personal property of interned Basel missionaries who had been sent back to Europe. Press cuttings, and German translations from articles in the daily press, andperiodicals. Correspondence with ex-Basel Mission congregations in India in the 1920s, and with individual Indians, about the Basel Mission’s return to India. Correspondence with British missionaries, ecumenical organisations, and the German Mission Committee of the Indian National Christian Council. Papers about relationships between the Basel Mission and the Kanarese Evangelical Mission The Mission Trading Company 1924-8, including a controversy about the Basel Mission in the British press, 1928. Reduction of scales of expenditure, India, 1936.

1920

1939

1920-1939

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