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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC350 F1
TitleLetter from Henry Vodden, Exeter College, Oxford to his parents
Extent1 doc.
Date[?1908]
DescriptionIncludes detailed description of meeting in Lunt's rooms of four Indians (Dr. Datta of Student Christian Movement; Mootayee a second year Exeter man; Jaini, head man in Calcutta [Kolkata] University and Katlyn, a high caste Brahmin, two freshmen of Exeter) and Englishmen Lunt, Somerset, Harris and Vodden: discussed the future of education in India emphasizing failure of English to reach educated classes because of wrong methods; vital importance of evangelisation through Indian faiths "It is far more important for a missionary to have a knowledge of comparative religion than it is for him to have studied the Early Fathers"
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