Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770–1931
South Asian records of the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG)
For more than a century an Anglican society had co-operated with Lutherans. The situation in which they had come together had been altered, by wars in Europe, by wars in India, and by the growing power of the East India Company, leading to a more settled government in the country. With peace came order, not only civil but ecclesiastical.former USPG archivist.
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India and Sri Lanka through the eyes of Anglican missionaries, 1770–1931
Indian and Sri Lankan Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1770–1931, was curated in association with the Bodleian Library.
This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates globally. From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). This collection includes letters, reports, and supplementary material compiled by its Indian and Sri Lankan branches during the period 1770–1931.
The collection contains correspondence left by Rev. Christian David, who became the first Indian ordained into the Anglican priesthood. It also includes annual diocesan reports from across India and Sri Lanka. The standardised structure of these reports enables the progress and reach of each mission to be tracked over time. These papers allow students, educators, and researchers to survey the spread of Anglicanism throughout South Asia, as well as life under the British Raj, and the causes and impact of the partition of India.
