India
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Alt form = Republic of India,Alt form lang = eng,Locator = 20.593684;78.962880,Notes = Geo-reference taken from www.mygeoposition.com,Created For = India
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Archive of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2055
Content Description
This fonds consists of autograph sheet music, printed music sheets, notebooks, and diaries of Sheena Lillian Tennant Kendall, "one of the first women composers" who studied under the famous Parisian composer and music teacher Nadia Boulanger. Most items are related to Kendall's music and her music- and theatre-related social activities in Munich and in London, but there are also three diaries describing her trip to India in 1912-1913.
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Dates:
1902-1933
Archives of the Regions Beyond Missionary Union
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 33
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material relating to the mission in general and to the work in Congo, Peru, India, Nepal, and Kalimantan and Irian Jaya and includes: (1) minutes and reports produced in the mission offices in London and in the fields; (2) correspondence with missionaries in the field, with regional and national councils, with other missions operating in the same areas, and with other evangelical agencies; (3) publications and printed material including issues of the mission's...
Dates:
[ca. 1872-1991]
Church of Scotland India and Nepal Collection
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 41
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: (1) volume giving details of the missionaries and mission council in Rajputana, north-west India (1868-1976); (2) papers, reports and correspondence relating to the work in Calcutta in particular to the Scottish Churches Mission and educational work (1880-1930); (3) minutes of the Santal (Santhal) missionaries' committee (1950-1976); (4) minutes of the meetings of the Madras Christian College governing board in Edinburgh (1909-1949); (5) material relating to the...
Dates:
1868-1985
Church of Scotland Slide and Visual Collection
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 47
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: (1) Lantern slides and glass plate negatives of: China (Charles Somerville collection, Dugald Christie); Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria); India; and Jamaica. Most sets come with indexes and commentaries and date from late 19th century to early-mid twentieth century. (2) Slides (35 mm) of: Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Egypt); Far East (including Taiwan and Hong Kong); Holy Land; Middle East; India (including Western...
Dates:
19th century-20th century
Collection of John Hector (1845-1934)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 4
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three volumes which seem to date from after Hector's return from India but contain extracts from lectures given and hymns, songs and verses collected while he was there: (1) volume, similar to a commonplace book, with hymns, songs and verses noted by Hector, some translated by him from Bengali or French, and some other notes and newspaper articles (various dates); (2) extracts from Hector's lectures to his students in Calcutta (extracts written by Hector at a later...
Dates:
19th century-20th century
Collection of Joseph Ross (1890-1969)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 3
Scope and Contents
The collection consists mainly of letters from and articles about missionaries who knew Ross, who were connected with the Boy Scout Association or who were associated with Aberdeen. Much of the material was collected by Ross for use in his Sunday school classes, but some is more personal, many of the articles are cutting from Life and Work or other missionary publications, and there are some photographs. There is only a small amount on each...
Dates:
1920-1962
Drawings and prints collected by Hugh Cleghorn
Fonds — Box Coll-1619, Box: Coll-1619 / E2015.23
Identifier: Coll-1619
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of lithographs, engravings, and woodcuts, notes and news-clippings, drawings, sketches, tracings and water-colours, and photographs of drawings. These feature trees, flowers and leaves, figures, animals and places in the Himalayas and across India... Indian life, forests and gardens.
Dates:
17th-19th century
Drawings of a Collection of East Indian Plants
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-478
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of drawings from Roxburgh's collection of East Indian plants. These were sent by Nathaniel Wallis (or Wallich) to Robert Wight for the Icones plantarum Indiae orientalis 1840-1853.
Dates:
19th century
Interserve Scotland
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 50
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises the archives of Interserve Scotland. Minute books of the Indian Female Normal Schools and Instruction Society, Edinburgh Auxiliary , the Zenana Bible and Medical Mision, subsequently the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship and now Interserve from 1880-1975. Correspondence, papers and 73 lantern slides. The society was principally concerned with medical and educational work in Asia. The collection also includes society publications: ...
Dates:
1880- 1988
Material relating to Bishop Kenneth Cragg, and to religious subjects
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1556
Identifier: Coll-1757
Content Description
The ms and ts/printed items are:
1 x copy ts sheet 'Islam in India' [1961 statistics], 1p
1 x ts paper, untitled, but concerned with 'talks about Islam', and referring to 'four fortnightly evening meetings, sponsored jointly by the Student Christian Movement and the Islamic Cultural Centre ... held at the Student Movement House in London' [1963], 7pp
1 x copy sheet...
Dates:
1961-2003