
British Women Missionaries In Bengal, 1793-1861
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the arrival of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, especially when travelling to India or working in missions was neither a spontaneous nor an acceptable career decision for white women. The book aims to throw light on a key moment in colonial contact, a new interface between two races, religions and ways of life. From a hesita...
Hardcover: 194 pages
Publisher: Anthem Press (November 30, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1783087269
ISBN-13: 978-1783087266
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 6555650
Format: PDF ePub djvu ebook
- 1783087269 pdf
- 978-1783087266 pdf
- Sutapa Dutta pdf
- Sutapa Dutta books
- pdf ebooks
Thea stilton an the sanish ance mission Here Sneakers the seaside cat pdf link Read The grownu gillian lynn ebook chateauprockonin.wordpress.com Read Simon says mine mountain masters dark haven volume 2 ebook alltutsunagio.wordpress.com Here Carlos annaconia books pdf link Read Officer survival for probation and parole officers ebook ballmackieprom.wordpress.com Download Living like a runaway a memoir pdf at 3sesperigui.wordpress.com Download A time to dance timeless love series pdf at agprefshitsuar.wordpress.com Read Old style conjure wisdoms workings and remedies ebook 3scaprudomon.wordpress.com
t beginning as ‘helpmeets’ to a more confident phase of mission activities in the form of setting up formal educational institutions, writing books and so on comprise a long legacy of white women’s participation in overseas colonial encounters. Historicizing imperial feminism will enable those who choose to use the past to locate and interrogate its ramifications on more ‘modern’ notions of feminism. The advent of the Baptist missionary William Carey in Bengal in 1793, followed by others, significantly altered how mission activity was perceived in India. From Hannah Marshman, who helped her more famous missionary husband Joshua Marshman to open schools for girls, to Mary Ann Cooke, the first single British woman missionary to come and work in India, to Hannah Mullens’s contributions to zenana education, were all part of a long journey which helped professionalize women’s missionary work in the colonies. With the death of Hannah Mullens in 1861, the ‘early’ phase of missionary work came to an end and then began a more proactive phase of evangelization and missionary activity in India.
Leave a Comment