Misc. letters 1912 [should have been filed in C-1.]187. 8 misc. letters from 1912 which had not been filed in the appropriate correspondence volumes. Several of the letters seem to be about health administration in Northern Karnataka.
Miscellaneous reports from the year 1912. Three documents in German MS which should have been bound with the 1912 correspondence from India (C-1184 to C-1.187): (a) report on the examinations in the Seminary in Mangalore 14 pp., 26. Mar. 1912. (b) …
Theodor Oehler’s Visitation in India 1889. An important loose collection of documents generated by Inspector Oehler’s visit to India in 1889 - addresses of welcome, petitions, some letters from Oehler to the Mission House in Basel, and some letters…
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…
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
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…
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).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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