A History of Missions In India

A History of Missions in India' brings out a roadmap of the numerous Missions carried. out in the then India for the propagation of Christian faith. The Book is a product of extensive and meticulous survey, covering centuries of missionary activities till the then present day. The Author traces Christian Missions all the way, prior to the arrival of the first missionaries from Rome and also details on the geography, demography, customs & cultures, and religions of India.

The Missions are divided by time periods: from the Earliest Times till the Decline of Roman Catholic Missions (17th/18th century); the Danish Missions (1706-1798); the development of Protestant Missions (1800- 1857); from the Mutiny to the Proclamation of the Empire (1857-1877); Other Missions (1880- 1908). While covering all the respective time periods, the Author has given in-depth details of some renowned missionaries like Francisco Xavier, Robert de Nobili, William Carey, and Alexander Duff.

Besides focusing on the notable moments of the expansion, an overview of the religious problems faced in executing Missions; missionary organizations and their respective works like Anglican Episcopate, Vernacular Preaching Literary Work, Women's Work for Women, and Medical Missions & Missions to Lepers have been exhaustively dealt with The leaven at work, like Brahmo Samaj, Will O' the Wisps, Revival of Hinduism, and Movements in Indian Muhammadanism have been carefully studied. Finally, the Author brings into limelight the success of Missions, with the building of 'Christian Church of India'.

This concise and informative book covers subjects like Missions, Religion, History, Regional Studies, Christianity, and Biographical narratives of various missionaries. It is a must to have for a Church Historian, Christian Laity, Church Clergies, Kesearchers, or anyone interested in the History of Christian Missions. Also, any dent of the subject will be left less informed Without having a reading of the book.

Julius Richter (1862-1940) was a German theologian and Mission scientist. In 1913 he qualified as a lecturer at the Berlin University and became a full professor of missiology in the year 1920. Prof. Dr. Julius Richter was the Chairman of Brandenburg Missionary Conference and Vice-Chairman of the German Evangelical Mission Committee, the Association for Mission Studies and during 1900-1940 he became Member of the Committee of the Berlin Mission. Since 1897 he was a member of the Continental Mission Conference and in 1924 became a member of the International Missionary Council which was founded in 1921. He wrote some thirty books and countless essays on almost all missiological subjects, and is considered the most prolific writer of his generation in the concerned subject. Richter was the first German missiologist to concentrate on the overseas Mission fields and their Churches in the encounter with Non-Christian religions. He took great pains to keep in touch with the international missionary and ecumenical movement by means of extensive travel and correspondence. Trip activity on four continents made ??him, one of the most ecumenical personalities of his time. He was able to build up a worldwide network of communication which proved to be advantageous for German Missions after World War II.

Sydney H. Moore (1878?-1964) was a former Headmaster of Silcoates School, and Master in the School for Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath, London. He was an expert in the field of German hymnology. In 1956 he got studies of German hymn-writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries published under the title "Sursum Corda."

IT were a churl's part not to give thanks where such are due, and in sending forth this version of Richter's Indische Missions- geschichte, the translator desires to express sincere gratitude for much labour, helpful counsel, and kindly assistance rendered by Miss E. I. M. Boyd, of Cambridge; by Rev. J. H. Oldham, M.A., of Edinburgh; by Fräulein Gertrud Ludewig, of Jena; and by the genial author himself, Dr. Julius Richter. Considerable crudite help has also been received whilst the book has been going through the press, at the hands of Dr. Datta, of Lahore. In the case of Rev. J. H. Oldham special acknowledgment is due, as the first thirty-seven pages were translated by him. It will be seen to how many sources any excellences that may here be found are for any faults the undersigned alone is responsible.

It would be presumption for one filling so subordinate a rôle as that of translator, to seek to prefix any formal dedication to his work. Yet if the names of the good, when invoked upon the enterprises of olden time, were held to render successful those about to venture forth to unknown fields, let it be permitted that in connection with this modest enterprise there be associated the names of the indomitable, the brave, the fearless, and the good-the names of my father and my mother.