Chaplain

The Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment was created in 1813. Sees of Madras and Bombay were added to that of Calcutta in 1833 These Chaplains were initially employees of the East India Company, and continued as employees of the Governments of the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay.

Records

• British Library "Help for researchers" Chaplains and other clergymen. Some of the records are common to, and are detailed in Indian Civil Service
• As an example, the 1902 India Office List shows the separately listed Bengal , Madras and Bombay Ecclesiastical Establishments.

FIBIS resources

• Review of The Chaplains of the East India Company, 1601-1858 by Daniel O’Connor 2012. Review by Richard Morgan FIBIS Journal Number 27 (Spring 2012), page 53. Refer FIBIS Journals for details of how to access this review.

Also see

• Missionary
• Churches and missions reading list

Historical books online

• Episodes in the Life of an Indian Chaplain by ‘a Retired Chaplain’ 1882 Archive.org. The author went to India c 1857
  • Duties of Indian Chaplains page 48
• Memoir of the expediency of an ecclesiastical establishment for British India; both as the means of perpetuating the Christian religion among our own countrymen; and as a foundation for the ultimate civilization of the natives by Claudius Buchanan 1805 Archive.org
• Colonial ecclesiastical establishment: being a brief view of the state of the colonies of Great Britain, and of her Asiatic empire, in respect to religious instruction, prefaced by some considerations on the national duty of affording it, to which is added a sketch of an ecclesiastical establishment of British India by Claudius Buchanan 1813 Google Books
• Cursory remarks on the inefficiency of the ecclesiastical establishment of India by Rev Henry Shepherd 2nd edition 1829 Google Books