The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D
In Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens
2 Volume Set
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- Author: George Smith
- Date Published: February 2010
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George Smith (1833–1919) spent many years in India as an educator and editor of the Calcutta Review. He was a great supporter of missionary work and became secretary of the foreign mission committee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. He also wrote popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff (1806–1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia. This strategy did not produce many converts but Duff remained a well-regarded missionary and educationalist and was influential in the 1833 and 1854 educational reforms implemented by the British colonial government.
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- Date Published: February 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108008310
- length: 1064 pages
- dimensions: 323 x 250 x 70 mm
- weight: 1.8kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume I:
1. The boy and the student
2. The first missionary of the Church of Scotland
3. The two shipwrecks
4. Calcutta as it was
5. The mine prepared
6. The first explosion and the four converts
7. The renaissance in India - the English language and the church
8. The renaissance in India - science and letters
9. Work for Europeans, Eurasians and native Christians
10. The invalid and the orator
11. Dr Duff organising
12. Fishers of men
13. Egypt-Sinai-Bombay-Madras
14. Fighting the Governor-General
15. The college and its spiritual fruit
Volume II:
16. Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland
17. Continuity of the work
18. Lord Hardinge's administration
19. Death of Dr Chalmers
20. Dr Duff organising again
21. Moderator of the General Assembly
22. In America and Canada
23. The mutiny and the native church of India
24. Last years in India
25. In south-east Africa
26. New missions and the result of half a century's work
27. Dr Duff at home
28. Peacemaking
29. Dying
Index.
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