i.e. Dr Fisch’s report on the health situation of missionaries in India 10.6.1913, with [3] replies from India and an estimate of the costs for a petrol-driven pump and a new well in Balmatta.. Rudolf Fisch returned from almost 30 years’ work as a…
Essays about India 1929-30, & articles on the political situation 1930. An index lists 62 items, all either originally in German or translated into the language. (Items 1a, 2, 13, 18-19, 45, 47-52, and 56 are missing). The file on the political…
India, 1931. Contents arranged as C-10.8,1 - 46 documents individually listed on a broad range of social, political and ecclesiastical topics, mostly originally in English and translated into German. There is, additionally, a substantial file of…
India 1932-3. Mostly a collection of translations of essays from English into German. Divided topically: Gandhi; History of Religions, Christianity and Hindusism; the Catholic movement among the Syrians; Miscellaneous.
India 1933-38. A much less well organised file with miscellaneous contents - press cuttings in German, translations of English essays, some English documents. Organised into sub-files: Gandhi and Nationalism: Missions; Christianity and…
This unusual set of documents (usually these minutes only appear tidied up in the bound C-1 volumes before 1913) is probably to be explained by the fact that Insp. Frohnmeyer from Basel was at the Conference and may have taken the rough minutes (or…
Minutes of miscellaneous conferences a document for the Malabar District Conference, 15th Nov. 1904, written by Rev. Jaus on the proposal to found a mission station in Manjeri, 100 pp. MS. -Minutes of the District Conference held in Calicut 14th…
Letters on the copper plates from Merkara which Kittel received as a present, but which the British Government argued should be given back. The file itself contains only four short documents, from which it appears that the copper plates were…
Almost certainly a collecting-place at some stage of archival re-organisation for documents "with no home". Some few materials on Kudat (N. Borneo) have been removed for filing in the archive on Sabah. Perhaps the most noteworthy contents are: -a…
The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in January 1784. Contents: -Hitopadesa, 155 numbered pages; -The Third Anniversary Discourse Delivered 2nd February 1786, 17 pp: -The Fourth Anniversary Discourse Delivered 15th February 1787, 19 pp -The…
On missionaries’ pathways in India. About 100 typewritten pages, undated, presumably the MS for Noverraz’ publication of the same title about his experiences in India (Northern Karnataka).
Church Union. Contains 8 important documents in German (a) from the time of the return of the Basel Mission to India in 1927, (b) from a surge of discussion about church union in 1931 (including 10 theses on church union by Karl Hartenstein), and…
The Paria Movement in India. A small collection of press-cuttings and other documents from the 1930s. "XV" presumably indicates that the folder originally belonged together with the material in C-10.8
Contains miscellaneous documents about Basel Mission relations with North Kerala; the latest documents are dated 1933, not 1928. The papers are in approximately chronological order, but not in any way fixed. They seem to have been collected in the…
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