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=== Home Missionary Society of India (HMSI) ===An indigenous mission, HMSI was originally established as the Women’s Home Missionary Society of India in June 1905 “to rouse the Anglo-Indian and Eurasian Communities to a direct and responsible share in the evangelisation of India.” The founders were Dr. Eva. D’Prazer, Dr . Nina Ottmann, Mrs Louise Marcar, and Miss T.M. Mergler.
The archives are not available, but Yale Divinity Library has digitized three of the mission reports: [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4763712 ''Report of the Women's Home Missionary Society of India (June, 1905-1908)'']; [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4763726 ''Proceedings of the Twenty First Conference, held at Bangalore, January 8-9, 1931'']; and [http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/4763779 ''Proceedings of the Thirtieth Conference, held at Bangalore, January 11-13, 1940''].
