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Klappentext A two-volume! 1879 biography of an early Scottish Presbyterian missionary who influenced educational reform in colonial India. Zusammenfassung George Smith (1833-1919) published several popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff! a Scottish Presbyterian missionary in India! was an influential educationalist who believed that successful evangelisation and modernisation depended on the education! in English! of India's upper-caste elite. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The boy and the student; 2. The first missionary of the Church of Scotland; 3. The two shipwrecks; 4. Calcutta as it was; 5. The mine prepared; 6. The first explosion and the four converts; 7. The renaissance in India - the English language and the church; 8. The renaissance in India - science and letters; 9. Work for Europeans! Eurasians and native Christians; 10. The invalid and the orator; 11. Dr Duff organising; 12. Fishers of men; 13. Egypt-Sinai-Bombay-Madras; 14. Fighting the Governor-General; 15. The college and its spiritual fruit.
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1. The boy and the student; 2. The first missionary of the Church of Scotland; 3. The two shipwrecks; 4. Calcutta as it was; 5. The mine prepared; 6. The first explosion and the four converts; 7. The renaissance in India - the English language and the church; 8. The renaissance in India - science and letters; 9. Work for Europeans, Eurasians and native Christians; 10. The invalid and the orator; 11. Dr Duff organising; 12. Fishers of men; 13. Egypt-Sinai-Bombay-Madras; 14. Fighting the Governor-General; 15. The college and its spiritual fruit.
