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==The first Englishman in India==
The Jesuit '''missionary''', Father Thomas Stevens, or Stephens, (c1549-1619) has been generally accepted as the first Englishman to arrive in India. He had studied in Rome and, having sailed on a [[Portuguese]] ship, settled in [[Goa]] 1579. There he learned the local languages and taught Christian doctrine to the local people.
As his father was a prominent merchant in London the information he sent home no doubt generated a lot of interest and raised awareness of the trading advantages in the East. In fact, it was not that long after, in 1600, that the Queen Elizabeth I eventually granted a charter to the [[East India Company]].
Moreover it is also documented that in 1583 Stevens sent a letter in Latin to his brother in Paris which described his missionary methods. He lived in Goa for over 40 years producing works in local languages . His masterpiece was the ''Christian Purana '', an epic poem based on the life of Jesus, written in the local Konkani dialect of Marathi. This was all the more ingenious as he had to adapt European script to embrace Indian language. For a history of the Jesuits' work in India, see: Leonard Fernando. [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935420.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935420-e-59 ''Jesuits and India.''] In Oxford Handbooks online. OUP, 2016.
==Charter Act 1813==
==FIBIS resources==
*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=241 Ministers and missionaries] section of the FIBIS database*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=889&s_id=69 ''Indian missionary directory and memorial volume'' by the Rev B H Badley. Revised Edition. Lucknow: Methodist Episcopal Church Press, 1881] 2,587 names have been indexed in the FIBIS database from this book which records Protestant Missionaries who have served in India.
*"Elizabeth Martin of Madras and Walter Medhurst, Missionary" by John Holliday ''FIBIS Journal Number 32 (Autumn 2014'' pages 38-44. They were members of the London Missionary Society. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
== British Protestant Missionary Societies in India and their archives ==
British Christian missionaries were usually sponsored in India by missionary societies from the United Kingdom. There was a wide variety from non-denominational through to Scottish Presbyterians, the Church of England societies, the Baptists, and those who now come under the United Reform Church. The archives of these missionary bodies, often rich sources of names, careers, family details and correspondence, are accessible but variously held in libraries or other repositories depending on the society. The structures of societies differ widely, but most have an archivist, and he/she may be a useful first contact.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20141028163200/http://www.mundus.ac.uk / Munduson the WayBack Machine] is a web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in UK, but below are details of some of these, giving for each its current name and location and where its archives are kept. Missionary societies from outside of Britain and additional Indian missionary sources which may provide useful background have been are being added in separate sections below.
===Baptist Missionary Society===
:[http://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/ The Angus Library and Archive website]
Note that the ''Baptist Missionary Society archives, 1792-1914 '' are available on microfilm in the USA at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (see contact details in American Baptist Missionaries below). Refer to the [http://www.sbhla.org/downloads/5350.pdf Inventory list for microfilm no. 5350].
For those who are able to visit India, Serampore College (est. 1818) also holds archival material from the earliest days of the Baptist Missionary Society's work in this part of the world. The college is situated 20 kms North-west-north from Calcutta and is an hour and a half drive from the Calcutta Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Airport, or the eighth railway station from Howrah on the Bandel Main line.:
===Church Missionary Society (CMS)===
 Formed as the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East in 1799 by Anglican evangelicals. The Church Missionary Society was renamed the Church Mission Society in 1995. Parts of the CMS Archives have been microfilmed by Adam Matthew Publications. Section II: Missions to Women and Section VI: Missions to India are of particular relevance. The full text of guides to these Sections are available online through the Adam Matthew at http://ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/a.aspx Selected sections of the microfilmed resources are also available online through Adam Matthew Digital (www.amdigital.co.uk), the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), Google Books (www.books.google.co.uk) and Hathi Trust digital library (www.hathitrust.org). Various research libraries and centres around the world subscribe to the digital resources. For access to post-1960 archives, visit the Crowther Centre at CMS. They can be contacted atalso provide access to the Adam Matthew Digital collection:
:CMS, Watlington Road, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 6BZ
:http://www.cms-uk.org
:Archivist E-mail: ken.osborne@cms-uk.org
The main official archive for the CMS is atheld by::Special Collections, Main Cadbury Research Library, :University of Birmingham, :Edgbaston, :Birmingham, B15 2TT :Tel: +44 (01210) 121 414 5838/39 :E-mail: s.j.worrallspecial-collections@bham.ac.uk
For post-1960 archives contact A description of the Crowther Centre Cadbury Research Library CMS holdings is available at CMS, Oxford, Telhttps: (01865) 787400//calmview.bham.ac.uk/record.aspx?src=Catalog&id=XCMS
=== Church of Scotland Missions ===
:London WC1H 0XG
:Tel: (020) 7898 4180 <br>
:E-mail: docenquiryspecial.collections@soas.ac.uk <br>:http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives
Some organisations outside of the UK hold sections of the LMS archives on microfiche; these microfiche archives are the ''Council for World Mission Archive 1774-1940'' and ''Council for World Mission Archive 1941-1950''. See LMS entry on [http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/4/251.htm Mundus] for holding bodies.
:Tel: (020) 7898 4148
:E-mail: lm37@soas.ac.uk
:http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives
Also see:
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''The Samuel Stearns Day Collection '' (AR. 143): "This is a significant archive on early mission efforts in India by Baptists. The main parts of the collection consist of biographical information, correspondence, diaries, journals, reports to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Board, sermons, and materials concerning mission work among the Telugus. The dates of these papers span the years 1825 – 1912. The biographical information is mainly concerning the Day and Stearns families." See [http://www.sbhla.org/downloads/143.pdf The Inventory] for more detail.
:Held by:
: USA.
: Phone 615-244-0344
: Email: taffey@sbhla.org
: http://sbhla.org
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=== American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) ===
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll123
=== Mundus : Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom ===A web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in UKarchives. This portal is currently only available as an archived web site.[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028163200/http://www.mundus.ac.uk/ Mundus on the WayBack Machine]
=== Royal Asiatic Society ===
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmission00rich/page/n6 ''A History of Missions in India''] by Julius Richter, translated from the German by Sydney H. Moore 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmission00hunt ''History of the Missions of the Free Church of Scotland in India and Africa''] 
by Robert Hunter 1873 Archive.org
*''Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume'' by Rev B. H. Badley of the American Methodist Mission. This Directory provides details of Protestant missions throughout India and biographical information about the missionaries. Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionar00badlgoog#page/n6/mode/2up Original edition 1876] [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionar00badlgoog#page/n16/mode/2up Contents] [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionar00badlgoog#page/n278/mode/2up Index]''';''' [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badliala#page/n3/mode/2up Revised Edition 1881] Includes Burma and Ceylon [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badliala#page/n9/mode/2up Contents], [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badliala#page/254/mode/2up Index]''';''' [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badl#page/n3/mode/2up Third edition 1886] [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badl#page/n9/mode/2up Contents] [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00badl#page/278/mode/2up Index]
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofindiab00robbiala ''A Hand-Book of India and British Burmah''] by W E Robbins, Missionary 1883 Archive.org. The author appears to be an American, possibly Presbyterian. [https://archive.org/stream/handbookofindiab00robbiala#page/220/mode/2up "Chapter VI: Evangelization of India"] page 220.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/churchmissionary04stocuoft#page/12/mode/2up ''The history of the Church Missionary Society, Volume 4''] by Eugene Stock 1916 contains chapters on India from Chapter 14, page 137 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabsindhmissi00clar#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Punjab and Sindh missions of the Church Missionary Society Giving an account of their foundation and progress for thirty-three years, from 1852 to 1884. Second edition, considerably enlarged, of a book entitled "Thirty years of missionary work of the C.M.S. in the Punjab and Sindh"''] by Robert Clark 1885 Archive.org
:For a biography of Robert Clark, see below, under Individuals.
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jFIEAAAAQAAJ&ots=FCmGYRCVAS&pg=PA636 ''The Baptist Magazine 1839''] Published by George Wightman. Page 636 mentions the formation of the Baptist Church in the Madras Presidency under Rev Day.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=QxMyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 ''A memorial of the Futtehgurh mission and her martyred missionaries: with some remarks on the mutiny in India''] by the Rev. J. Johnston Walsh 1859 Google Books. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (USA)
*[https://archive.org/details/fouryearscampaig00tayl/page/n5 ''Four years' campaign in India''] by William Taylor 1876 Archive.org. He was a Wesleyan/Methodist missionary, who arrived in India in 1870.
*[https://archive.org/details/irenepetriemissi00unse/page/n7 ''Irene Petrie, Missionary to Kashmir''] by Mrs Ashley Carus-Wilson 1901 Archive.org. Irene Petrie, 1864-1897, was with the Church Missionary Society.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924022906311/page/n9/mode/2up ''Robert Clark of the Panjab : pioneer and missionary statesman''] by Henry Martyn Clark 1907 Archive.org. Born 1825, he joined the Church Missionary Society and was sent to India where he arrived in 1852 and was posted to [[Amritsar]]. He partially retired in 1898, completely in 1900, but died soon after.
*[https://archive.org/details/b28145860 ''At work : letters of Marie Elizabeth Hayes, M.B. Missionary Doctor Delhi, 1905-8''] 1909 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/glimpseofindiabe1909swai#page/n7/mode/2up ''A Glimpse of India being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America''] 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b29353014 ''Beyond the Pir Panjal : life among the mountains and valleys of Kashmir''] by Ernest F. Neve 1912. Archive.org. The author was a doctor who worked at the Kashmir Medical Mission.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pennellafghanfr00penngoog#page/n12/mode/1up ''Pennell of the Afghan frontier; the life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind medal for public service in India''] by Alice Maud Pennell 1914. Dr Pennell of the Bannu Medical Mission died at the age of 44.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/dridathestoryofd010071mbp#page/n5/mode/2up ''Dr Ida: The Story Of Dr Ida Scudder Of Vellore''] by Dorothy Clarke Wilson 1959. Archive.org. Dr Ida Scudder was an American medical missionary who practised as a doctor in India from c 1900, who was the driving force behind the establishment of the Vellore Christian Medical College and Hospital
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25914/25914-h/25914-h.htm ''The Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan''] by Mary Kennedy Core 1917 Project Gutenberg. The introduction indicates the author was an American missionary. She also wrote articles in the ''Woman's missionary friend'', Volumes 47-48 1915 and Volume 70 1937 published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
*[https://archive.org/details/MN41790ucmf_6 ''Shelton of Tibet''] by Flora Beal Shelton 1923 Archive.org. Dr Albert Leroy Shelton, 1875-1922, was a medical missionary, for the Foreign Christian Missionary Society of Cincinnati, USA, from 1903 until killed by bandits.
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35118740 "The amazing adventures of Sue in Tibet and her creator"] by Tricia Kehoe 16 March 2016. BBC News.Dorris Shelton Still was the daughter of Dr Albert Shelton and his wife Flora, and spent her childhood in Tibet. Includes photographs.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/957957 ''Cast a long shadow : a saga of three generations of a southern Illinois family, reaching from Williamson County to Belgaum, India''] by Ruth Childers Seamands , published 1994. The author was the wife of an American Methodist minister. Digital page 369 mentions her brief stay in India in 1941 before evacuation on a troop transport to the USA after the bombing of Pearl Harbour; digital page 404 onwards documents her life in India 1946-1959. Family Search Digital Library. You need to be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view the book.
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