Title, Note & Contents

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BV 3280.T4H62

f.P Christian missions in the Telugu country 3 1924 oil 177 197

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Telugu Girls at S. Ebba's, Madras — frontispiece

Map of the Telugu Missions

Map of the Telugu Missions (detail)

CHRISTIAN

IN THE

TELUGU COUNTRY

G. HIBBERT-WARE,

Fellow of the Punjab University

AT

MISSIONARY

KALASAPAD.

ILLUSTRATED

PUBLISHED BY

15 TUFTON STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.

MISSIONS

BV

M.A.

TELUGU

COUNTRY

1912

NOTE

The present volume issued as a companion volume is books the four similar to which Missions the

S.P.G.

is to give a general account of Its object Missions in the Telugu country and to give in greater detail a sketch of the particular work which the S.P.G. The support. helps to Hibbert-Ware Mr. to for which we trust may be the means of extending interest India where

part

a in of is spreading more rapidly than Mr. Hibbert-Ware, who went out

part.

missionary in 1898, is a Fellow of the Punjab University and was for some time Principal of S. Stephen's Univer- He Delhi. sity College, We desire also to acknowledge in the Telugu country. the large amount of help received from the Rev. Canon Inman, who provided most of the material for the two chapters dealing with the history of the Mission Bird, who collected much to the Rev. A. F. R. information contained in the book.

H.

Rev. indebted the to A. W. B. Higgens for reading and correcting the proofs after Mr. Hibbert-Ware's return to India.

EDITORIAL SECRETARY.

S.P.G. House, January 1912.

Burmese and on Indian has recently published. all Christian Society indebted greatly is book, the writing of this Christian missionary work almost any other in to India as a is now working at Kalasapad and ; of the We are also greatly G. Downes and the Rev.

CONTENTS

The country and people

I.

The country and people {continued)

II.

The S.P.G. Mission

III.

Malas, Madigas, and Sudras

IV.

Methods of work

V.

The S.P.G. Mission

SYSTEM .......

VI.

The Training College

VII-

The Evangelistic Band ....

VIII.

Medical work

IX.

Work among women and girls

X.

Church organisation

XI.

Self-support

XII.

. The work of the Church Missionary Society

XIII.

Review of work done .... Other Missions in the Telugu Country Index .......

XIV.

XV.

PAGE

i . . . . 23 . ... ; early period ..... 51 . . 73 97 ; modern period 115 . . and educational 131 150 158 165 . . . 171 . . • . . .178 . . . 184 196 207 215

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Telugu Girls at S. Ebba's, Madras Map of the Telugu Missions Daybreak at Kurnool Telegraph posts on the way to Kurnool Shaving the head of a schoolboy A Cornfield in the Telugu Country Buffaloes in the river Handri, Kurnool A Stone-leader's bandy, Kurnool ' Good Morning The way we say Country ....... A typical school and schoolhouse A Bible class at Nandyal How cocoanut palms grow in the Kurnool District Community of out-castks (Malas) at Bapanakotkur Basket makers at work Kurnool District : An out-caste's home, Dhone, Kurnool District .... Teacher and school children outside Bapanakotkur prayer house their prayer house ..... date-palm leaves Out-castes bringing in One of our older catechists .... A DOSE OF medicine ......

A BULLOCK BANDY ......

A Missionary's encampment

Frontispiece

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VUl The church at Kalasapad The Rev. S. Gnanamuthu a bazaar in kurnool a toddy bandy going to kurnool market The High School, Nandyal JUNIOR theological CLASS At the well, Nandyal The teachers at the High School The old church, Nandyal The swimming-place for the High School, Nandyal Evangelising the Telugu Country A Missionary encamped Kurnool District : A Telugu Priest the first student of Nandyal : to be ordained . The dispensary, Nandyal ... The two poets of the Evangelistic Band An Indian priest with his family Girls' Boarding School, Nandyal King's Messengers stitching trousers at Nandyal S.P.G. girls' day school, Kurnool The Teachers and scholars at S.P.G. school, Kurnool

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communicants

GROUP

OF

Nandyal for the Christmas Celebration A weaver setting UP THE WARP Telugu Christians : showing modes of wearing hair A Missionary's bungalow in the Telugu Country Communicants village of a occasion of a Celebration

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