Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe polarised opinion in early 20th India by his unconventional methods of educating Kashmiris and, through them, changing the social order of a society steeped in old superstitions. 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. He made enemies of the Hindu Establishment, who described him as 'exceedingly a bad man and one too much fond of cricket,' but earned the respect of two successive Hindu Maharajas, as well as the Muslim leader, who succeeded them. He was 27 when he became the Principal of the Church Missionary Society's school in Kashmir in 1890 and he left as India gained independence in 1947. His vision was of a school in action, vigorously involved in the affairs and problems of the city of Srinagar, to support the weak and to fight corruption wherever it occurred. Under his leadership the masters and boys were engaged in fighting fires in the city, saving people from drowning, taking hospital patients for outings on the lakes, helping women and removing the ban on the remarriage of young widows. His avowed purpose was to make his students into honest, fearless leaders, who would serve their beloved country of Kashmir. The book begins with the medieval condition of Kashmir in the nineteenth century; describes the development of his unusual approach to education; explores the many challenges he had to overcome, including his chronic bad health, his difficulties with the CMS and the opposition of the Hindu establishment and State Government; and contrasts this with the speedy and enthusiastic acceptance by his young Kashmiri teachers and students of what he was offering and how together they transformed their society and prepared Kashmir for independence.

The Kingdom in a kingdom is a historical study of the English Methodist Mission’s work in the princely State of Mysore from 1813 to 1913. It uses valuable archival resources to provide as well as evaluate comprehensive information on the Mission’s activities in the state. It discusses the methods and processes adopted for spreading the gospel, and the educational, medical and social concerns ministries of the Mission. It also explores the unique nature of the relationship between the Maharajas and some of the missionaries.

This volume examines the various modalities of imperial engagements with the colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa. Articulated through race, gender and medicine, these modalities also became colonial sites of desire addressing colonial anxieties ensuing from concerted engagements. Focussing on colonial India, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, this volume brings together essays from eminent scholars to examine the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding their role in the dominant discourses of the empire. Given its transnational perspective in addressing colonial India and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book will appeal to historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, and to scholars and students in colonial studies, cultural studies, history of medicine and world history.

Barbara Cattell Brantingham grew up in India during those historic years of 1936 to 1954, which marked the last fading decade of the British Raj, the end of the rule of Maharajas, independence of India from Britain, and the partition of India and Pakistan. Her life flowed from the mission bungalow to the British Political Agents' home for afternoon tea with a visit from the Maharaja on State business, to the villages where a whole family lived in one room with a mud floor. Their family cook was a Muslim, the nanny a Christian, the gardener a Hindu and the sweeper an Untouchable. Part of the year was spent on the Plains, the other in the Himalayan Mountains at Woodstock School. This is Barbara Brantingham's very personal journey to reclaim her childhood, and to discover her own personal history formed by Quaker parents, extraordinary missionaries, British India, village India, and boarding school. --retrieved from webpage http://www.barbaracattellbrantingham.blogspot.com/ (accesssed 10/9/2012)

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.