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…
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…
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) …
from M. Blair, Magistrate of Canara ,to the Secretary of the Government in the Public Department. Petition wegen des Übertritts von H.A. Kaundinya zum Christentum und danach erfolgter Ausschreitungen und Urteil des Gerichts / Petition regarding H.A.…
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.
a 16 p. duplicated paper from the National Seminar on the Ritualistic Theatre of Coastal Karnataka, Udipi, 1986 (this document is marked "revised copy for the press").
Burangi, the praise of God. The development of a congregation among outcastes in India 35 p. anon. n.d., but T/S with detailed account of contacts with dalits in the early 1940s in Suranigi, a village in the region around Betgeri. Written by a woman…
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…
Malayalam Bible Translation - the Revision of the Malayalam New Testament. This contains correspondence from the 1880s centred on an ecumenical Bible Revision committee. Much of the material exists here in printed form also. One point at issue was…
Malayalam Seminar, from the papers of [L.J.] Frohnmeyer. The authors represented include Ch. Irion and possibly H. Gundert. These documents seem to be a collection of research papers, and the results of translation work, and they certainly go…
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