The Missionary and the Maharajas - Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe and the Making of Modern Kashmir

Zusatztext This is an engaging narrative of missionary work in Kashmir, based on diaries, correspondence and school records. The text is crammed with much fascinating incidental detail. Informationen zum Autor Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe , grandson of Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, was born in Kashmir, India, where he attended the school run by his parents. A marsupial biologist best known for his book Life of Marsupials , he served as Chief Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations Division of Wildlife Research and lectured at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2018 he was made a member of the Order of Australia. Vorwort Offering an insight into the history and religion of Kashmir, this book describes Tyndale-Biscoe's unusual approach to education and explores the many challenges he had to overcome in his work as a missionary in the early 20th century. Zusammenfassung As a missionary in Kashmir, India, in the early 20th century, Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion through his unconventional educational methods and his attempt to change the social order of a society steeped in old traditions. He was a man of contradictions: a Christian and a boxer, a missionary who made very few converts, a staunch supporter of British imperialism and a friend of Kashmir's political reformers. Aged 27 when he became the Principal of the Church Missionary Society's school in Kashmir, his vision was of a school in action, vigorously involved in the affairs and problems of the city of Srinagar. He made many enemies in the Hindu establishment, but earned the respect of two successive Hindu Maharajas and the Muslim leader who replaced them. Offering an insight into the history and religion of Kashmir, this book describes Tyndale-Biscoe's unusual approach to education and explores the many challenges he had to overcome in his work as a missionary in the early 20th century.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Tyndale-Biscoe Hugh
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781350345812
• ISBN: 978-1-350-34581-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 214 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: historical, political & military, British Empire, RELIGION / History, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, India, Christianity, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Moral and social purpose of education, Christian institutions & organizations, Biography: historical, political and military, Religious institutions and organizations, Moral & social purpose of education, HISTORY / Asia / South / General