Book Description

Title:

Memoir of the Expediency of an Ecclesiastical Establishment for British India: Both as the Means of Perpetuating the Christian Religion Among our Own Countrymen, and as a Foundation for the Ultimate Civilization of the Natives

Author:

Claudius Buchanan [1766-1815]

Publication Year:

1811

Location:

Cambridge

Publisher:

Hilliard and Metcalf

Pages:

96

Subjects:

Christian Mission, India

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Contents

• Preface to the this American Edition
• Part I. On the Means of Preserving the Profession of the Christian Religion Among our Countrymen in India
1. Present state of the English church in India
2. Of the establishment of the Romish church in the East
3. Of the extent of the proposed Ecclesiastical Establishment for British India
4. Considerations deduced from the propriety or neces- • sity of an Ecclesiastical Establishment
5. Objections to an Ecclesiastical Establishment considered
• Part II. Civilization of the Natives
1. On the practicability of civilizing the Natives
2. On the policy of civilizing the Natives
3. On the impediments to the civilization of the Natives. The philosophical spirit of Europeans formerly an impediment to the civilization of the Natives
4. The sanguinary superstitions of the natives an impediment to their civilization
5. The numerous holydays of the Natives an impediment to their civilization
• Part III.Of the Progress Already Made in Civilizing the Native of India
1. Of the extension of Christianity in India, under the influence of episcopal jurisdiction
2. Of the extension of Christianity in India, by the labours of Protestant Missionaries
• Appendix
1. Record of the superstitious practices of the Hindoos, now subsisting, which inflict immediate death, or tend to death; deducted from the evidence of the Pundits and learned Brahmins in the College of Fort William
2. Notes on the practicability of abolishing those practices of the Hindoos, which inflict immediate death, or tend to produce death; collated from the information and suggestions of the Pundits and learned Brahmins in the College of Fort William
3. A.D. 1802. Regulation VI
4. Report of the number of women who have burned themselves on the funeral pile of their husbands within thirty miles round Calcutta, from the beginning of Bysakh (15th April) to the end of Aswin (15th October), 1804
5. Religious mendicants
6. Different Hindoo sects in Bengal
7. Ancient civilization of India
8. Excessive polygamy of the Kaolin Brahmins
9. Testimonies to the general character of the Hindoos
10. Jewish Scriptures at Cochin
11. Shanscrit testimonies of Christ
12. Chinese version of the Scriptures; and Chinese literature

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