| Administrative History | The Society's missions in India centred on Calcutta [I 1], Madras [I 2] and Bombay [I 3]. A Corresponding Committee was set up in Calcutta in 1807 and with the renewal of the East India Company's Charter in 1813 when missionaries were allowed into the country it took on the role of a CMS Auxiliary. The first CMS missionaries to North India did not reach Calcutta until 1816. In Madras a Corresponding Committee was formed in November 1814 and the missionaries arrived the following year. A Corresponding Committee for CMS work in Bombay was formed in June 1818, thought the first missionary did not arrive until 1820. Work in North India was controlled by the Calcutta Corresponding Committee until 1878 when the Punjab stations were joined to the work in Sind [which had been run from Bombay] to form the Punjab and Sind mission [I4]. In 1893 the North-West Provinces mission [I6] broke away from Punjab and Sind This in turn was split into the United Provinces mission [I7] from 1903 and the Central Provinces mission [I8] from 1904. Work in South India was run by the Madras Corresponding Committee until 1881 when Travancore and Cochin [ I5] was set up as an autonomous mission. In 1924 work in the Telegu area [I9] and Tinnevelly [I10] was separated from Madras and made two independent missions. |
| Custodial History | Papers catalogued by Rosemary A. Keen, 1961 [Ceylon mission], 1962-1963 [North India missions], and 1985-1986. Handlists for India General, Ceylon and North India missions revised and expanded by Rosemary Keen, 1984-1985. |