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International Missionary Council and Conference of British Missionary Societies: India


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 IMC/CBMS/I

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: International Missionary Council and Conference of British Missionary Societies: India

Date(s): 1902-1963

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 851 microfiche

Name of creator(s): International Missionary Council
Conference of British Missionary Societies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The archive dates from the period after the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The Conference of British Missionary Societies was founded in 1912 with over 40 member missionary societies of various denominations. The International Missionary Council was founded in 1921 and its members comprised interdenominational associations of missionary societies in various countries and interdenominational field bodies. The two bodies shared premises at Edinburgh House, near Sloane Square, London, until the IMC became part of the World Council of Churches in 1961.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Microfiche copy of the joint archive of the International Missionary Council and Conference of British Missionary Societies, largely dating from 1910-1945 with some material dating from 1902-1963, relating to co-operative missionary endeavours in India, and comprising minutes and papers of the National Missionary Council (NMC) and its successor the National Christian Council (NCC), 1912-1963, and of provincial mission councils (including Burma and Ceylon), 1913-1947; NMC correspondence and papers, 1912-1922, including some relating to the NMC survey, 1914-1920; NCC correspondence and papers, 1922-1951, on missionary work and related issues; papers on the NCC and the Christian Medical Association of India, medical work and medical education, 1928-1943; NCC Review, 1926-1950; papers on Christian literature, 1918-1943, and statistics for Indian Christians, 1922-1945; papers on NCC surveys on conditions in rural and industrial work and post-war economic reconstruction, 1927-1948; NCC mass movement and evangelism, 1929-1941; comity between different missions, 1917-1945; devolution of mission property, 1937-1947; the Jacobite (Syrian) Church (Orthodox), Travancore, 1929-1942; Benares City Mission, 1928-1949; interdenominational Church Union in South India, 1928-1947; various printed material, 1919-1957; papers on Indian government, constitutional reform, political affairs and independence, including implications for the Christian minority, 1915-1950; general educational provision and educational policy in India, 1911-1925, 1940; the 'conscience cause' in education, 1902-1925; Village Education Commission (which reported in 1920), 1904-1922, and related subjects, 1924-1949; the '4 1/2 Colleges Appeal' for women's education, 1926-1930; the Lindsay Commission on Higher (Christian) Education, 1929-1931, and the resulting Central Board of Christian Higher Education, 1931-1948, British Advisory Committee on Christian Higher Education, 1931-1939, and American Advisory Committee on Christian Higher Education, 1931-1938; papers on the Indian Christian Colleges Appeal, 1928-1948; High Schools Survey and related subjects, 1916-1935; theological education, including individual colleges, 1919-1948; women's education, including medical education and missionary training, 1916-1949; various Colleges, 1920-1951; various printed papers on Indian education, 1938-1946. Some material relates to Pakistan, the Punjab, and Bengal, as well as to India as demarcated in the modern period.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright held by the World Council of Churches.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist and database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired in 1979.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

The original files are deposited at the offices of the World Council of Churches in Geneva.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds joint archives of the International Missionary Council/Conference of British Missionary Societies relating to co-operative missionary endeavours in Africa (Ref: IMC/CBMS/A); records of the Conference of British Missionary Societies (Ref: CBMS); records of the Christian Literature Bureau for Africa and its succession by the International Committee on Christian Literature for Africa (part of the International Missionary Council) (Ref: ICCLA); and microfiche copy of the archives of the International Missionary Council (Ref: IMC).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Rosemary Seton, Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections (School of Oriental and African Studies, 1994), p 9; IDC Publishers, Missionary Archives on microfiche.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: May 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Christians | Religious groups
Constitutions | Constitutional law | Public law
Decolonization | Colonial countries | Political systems
Ecumenicalism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Educational finance | Economics of education
Educational missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Evangelistic missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Freedom of religion | Freedom of thought | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Industrial areas | Urban areas
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Mission educational institutions | Educational institutions
Missionary training | Vocational education
Newly independent states | Political systems
Orthodox Christianity | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Overseas/foreign mission administration | Mission administration | Mission policy | Missionary societies | Religious organizations | Religious institutions
Politics | Political science
Religious education | Social science education
Religious minorities | Religious communities | Religious institutions
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Religious texts | Religious doctrines | Theology
Rural education | Formal education
Rural missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Secondary schools | Schools | Educational institutions
Self government | Political systems
Statistical data | Statistics
Urban missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Women missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Womens education | Educational systems
Economic and social development
Educational policy
Internal politics
Rural areas

Personal names

Corporate names
American Advisory Committee on Christian Higher Education in India
Benares City Mission | India
British Advisory Committee on Christian Higher Education in India
Central Board of Christian Higher Education | India
Christian Medical Association of India
Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland x Conference of British Missionary Societies
International Missionary Council
Jacobite (Syrian) Church | Travancore, India
Lindsay Commission on Christian Higher Education in India
National Christian Council of India
National Missionary Council of India
Village Education Commission | India

Places
Bengal | South Asia
Kerala | India | South Asia
Myanmar | South East Asia
Pakistan | South Asia
Punjab | South Asia
Sri Lanka | South Asia
Varanasi | India | South Asia