History of Protestant Missions in India from 1706 to 1881

This would appear to be a very significant work for those interested in early missionary work in India. It covers all of the major mission agencies involved from 1706 to 1881 and summaries the progress that had been made by the end of that period.

My thanks the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. The title is in the public domain.

Matthew Atmore Sherring [1826-1880] & Edward Storrow [1818-1907], The History of Protestant Missions in India from their Commencement in 1706 to 1881. London: Religious Tract Society, 1884. Hbk. pp.463. [Click to visit the download page]

Contents

• Preface

1. Protestant Missions in India During the Eighteenth Century
2. Missions in Calcutta and its Vicinity
3. Missions in Bengal, Excluding Calcutta and its Vicinity
4. Missions Among the Kols and Santals
5. Missions in the North0-Western Provinces, Oudh, and Rohilkhand
6. Missions in the Punjab
7. Missions in Central India, including Rajpootana, Holkar’s Country,the Central Provinces, the BErars, and the Nizam’s Dominions
8. Missions in the City and Presidency of Bambay
9. Missions of Basle Evangelical Society in the Southern Marathi Country, Canara, and Malabar
10. Missions in Bellary and the Mysore
11. Missions of the Church Missionary Society in North Travancore and Cochin
12. Missions of the London Missionary Society in South Travancore
13. Missions of the Church Missionary Society, and of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in the Province of Tinnevelly
14. Missions in the Province of Madura, of the American Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions, and of the Society for the Propagation in Foreign Parts
15. Missions in Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Coimbatore, and the Neelgiris
16. Missions in the Provinces of Arcot and Salem
17. Missions in the City of Madras an its Vicinity, including the Province of Chingleput
18. Missions in the Provinces of Cuddapah, Kurnool, and Nellore
19. Missions in the Kistna abd Godavery Districts, and in Vizagapatam and Ganjam
20. Summary of the Agencies and Results of Protestant Missions in India

• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Index

Preface

The aim of this work is to show historically what Protestant Missions have accomplished in India since their commencement in the beginning of the last century. In pursuance of this object, I have collected together all the important events of these Missions, and have presented them in a succinct and consecutive narrative, thus striving to give a complete view, as in a panorama, of their operations and achievements. Notwithstanding the numerous reports which have been £or many years issued by missionaries concerning their respective fields of labour, it has hitherto been well-nigh impossible to gain an adequate and distinct conception of the wonderful work which has been accomplished in the evangelization of the people of India. While leaving matters of unnecessary detail, I have endeavoured to furnish an outline of the various methods, plans, and projects which have been pursued in the formation and growth of the Indian Protestant Church, sufficiently minute to be correct, and yet so compacted together and interwoven as to suffer neither in unity nor comprehensiveness….