Siwan Mission Day School, India, 1906

Black and white lantern slide showing a group portrait of the male pupils and staff in the Siwan Mission Day School run by Regions Beyond Missionary Union in Siwan, Bihar, India. All the pupils appear to be male, and most cover their heads with hat or turbans. The picture features four smartly dressed male Indian staff, and three European missionaries. Mr George Hicks, one of the first missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union to enter India, appears on the left of the group. Reverend J F T Hallowes and John Hodge stand to the right of the group. This image was taken on the visit of Reverend Hallowes to Siwan in 1906. Reverend Hallowes first travelled to India in 1904, and by 1906 was the Minister of the Union Church in Mussoorie in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.