cover image: A village in Maharashtra, India, s.d

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A village in Maharashtra, India, s.d

"A walled village in the Marathi country." A remote village in Maharashtra surrounded by a semi-ruined wall. The houses are built of sun-dried mud or brick. An Indian minister, Samuel Rahator, is shown arriving by pony tonga. Samuel Rahator was the son of Marathi Rajputs who had converted to Christianity. He became an ordained minister of the Methodist Church in India in 1892. His Marathi Mission eventually had 8 catechists, 6 colporteurs, 15 school teachers and 2 Bible women operating in towns and villages in Maharashtra. He died in 1936. From a set of lantern slides entitled "Our Indian Fellow Workers" complied by F. Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937.
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Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9343
Format
Photographs
Pages
Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
Place Discussed
India Maharashtra
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
India
Reference
impa-m9343 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-SOA-MMS-09-20-03-10
Rights
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library docenquiry@soas.ac.uk http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/577d5d1c1c454477306db630376ecda6

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