General Baptist Women in Orissa, India: Initiatives in Female Education, 1860s–1880s
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Developing Female Education
3. Care and Education in a Time of Famine
4. Priorities and Personnel
5. Societal and Missional Issues
6. Exemplifying and Teaching the Way of Jesus
7. Conclusions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
1 | The Missionary Observer was published monthly. The SPFEE published the Female Missionary Intelligencer. See (Donaldson 1990). |
2 | ‘Letter from Mrs Buckley’, Observer, April 1861, 154. Sarah Buckley had originally been supported by the FES. |
3 | In 1894, Homerton College, which was a Congregational College, moved to Cambridge. |
4 | ‘Report’, Intelligencer, 1 September 1862, 160–61. |
5 | ‘Orissa’, Intelligencer, 1 January 1863, 8–11. |
6 | ‘Vernacular School’, Intelligencer, 1 April 1863, 78–81. |
7 | ‘Cuttack’, Observer, February 1863, 79. |
8 | ‘Reports’, Observer, July 1863, 274, 279–80. |
9 | ‘Work in India’, Intelligencer, 1 June 1863, 126. |
10 | ‘Letter from Mrs Buckley’, Observer, May 1864, 195–98. |
11 | A.M. Pollock, ‘The Work of the Society’, Intelligencer, 1 July 1864, 153–55; ‘Home Committee’, Intelligencer, 1 December 1864, 17. |
12 | ‘Letter from Mrs Buckley’, Observer, May 1865, 156–59. For background, see Dinabandhu Dehury, ‘Promotion of Education in Orissa by Ravenshaw’, Orissa Review, April–May 2009, 15–21. |
13 | ‘The Orphanage at Piplee’, Observer, May 1865, 222. |
14 | ‘Famine in Orissa’, Intelligencer, 1 September 1866, 134–39. For more, see (Samal 1999, pp. 6–31). |
15 | ‘Report’, Intelligencer, 1 October 1867, 164–66; ‘Report’, Intelligencer, 2 March 1868, 34–36. |
16 | ‘Cork Auxiliary’, Intelligencer, 1 August 1868, 125–27. |
17 | ‘Reports from Orissa’, Intelligencer, 1 June 1869, 126–28. |
18 | ‘The Orissa Mission and its Famine Orphanages’, Observer, August 1878, 5, 10. |
19 | ‘Baptisms in Cuttack’, Observer, December 1870, 378. |
20 | Lewis, ‘Establishing India’, 90–91. |
21 | ‘Letter from Mrs Buckley’, Observer, April 1871, 123–24. |
22 | ‘A Holiday in Orissa’, Intelligencer, April 1871, 53–55. |
23 | ‘Orissa’, Intelligencer, July 1871, 101–3. |
24 | ‘Death of Miss Guignard’, Observer, October 1871, 317. Mary Guignard was buried in Bengal. |
25 | ‘Tribute’, Intelligencer, December 1871, 178–86. |
26 | ‘Education in Orissa’, Observer, March 1872, 98–99. |
27 | ‘Tidings from Orissa’, Intelligencer, February 1873, 21–23. See (Stanley 1992, pp. 166–67), also (Gangte 2017). |
28 | ‘Baptisms in Orissa’, Observer, October 1872, 324. |
29 | ‘Reports’, Observer, October 1873, 399; ‘Reports’, Observer, December 1873, 494. |
30 | ‘Orissa’, Intelligencer, January 1875, 11–13. |
31 | ‘Orissa’, Intelligencer, November 1873, 171. |
32 | ‘Language Policy’, Intelligencer, January 1875, 11–13. See (Mohanty 2002). |
33 | ‘Metropolitan Tabernacle’, Observer, November 1875, 440. |
34 | ‘Zenana work’, Intelligencer, January 1876, 17. |
35 | ‘Orissa’, Intelligencer, January 1876, 17. |
36 | ‘School Inspections’, Intelligencer, February 1876, 7. For Francis, see Indian Medical Gazette, 2 July 1877, 192. |
37 | ‘The Beginning of the Work in Balasore: American Baptist Historical Society’, Tidings, December 1924, 7. |
38 | She married Thomas Bailey, whose first wife had died. |
39 | ‘Madras Famine’, Observer, March 1878, 115. |
40 | ‘Afghan War’, Observer, January 1880, 39. For background, see (Barthorp 2002). |
41 | ‘Berhampur’, Observer, August 1878, 11. |
42 | ‘Piplee’, Observer, May 1878, 201. |
43 | ‘Female Education’, Observer, August 1878, 322. |
44 | ‘Tribute’, Observer, July 1879, 301–2. |
45 | ‘Orissa Conference’, Observer, February 1880, 76, 80. |
46 | ‘School in Cuttack’, Intelligencer, August 1879, 142–43. |
47 | ‘Tribute’, Observer, March 1880, 118. |
48 | ‘Telugu work’, Observer, July 1879, 293. See (Sekhar 2021). |
49 | ‘Female Education Society’, Observer, August 1881, 318–19. |
50 | ‘Queen Street Baptist Chapel’, Peterborough Standard, 12 November 1881, 5. I am grateful to Michael Kennelly, who has written on Thomas Barrass, for his help. |
51 | ‘Farewell Service’, Observer, December 1881, 469–70. |
52 | ‘A New Missionary for Orissa’, Observer, June 1882, 237. |
53 | ‘Half as much again’, Observer, January 1883, 33–34. |
54 | ‘Orissa Conference’, Observer, March 1883, 113, ‘Notes’, Observer, May 1883, 157. |
55 | ‘London Meeting’, Intelligencer, July 1886, 105–11. |
56 | ‘Visiting villages’, Observer, September 1886, 359. |
57 | ‘Bible Woman’, Observer, October 1886, 397–98. |
58 | Harriet Leigh, ‘Female Education in Orissa’, Observer, May 1888, 198–99. |
59 | ‘Bible and Prayer Union’, Observer, August 1889, 333. |
60 | FES files are held in the University of Birmingham, Cadbury Research Library, Special Collections. |
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