The medical missionaries of the Salvation Army in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Kerala. (360G-Wellcome-081517_Z_06_Z)

£1,500

The medical missionaries of the Salvation Army in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Kerala The project deals extensively with the medical activities of the Salvation Army in the Malayali speaking parts of South India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The boom marches of this Salvation Army in the 1890s led to a large-scale conversion of the lower castes to Christianity. The conversion largely took place in the Agasteepuram and Tovala taluks of Travancore. A visit by General William Booth, the founder at the end of 1895 aroused a great deal of interest among the new converts. In the following year, responding to the appeals of these converts, a dispensary was established in a room of the head quarters at Nagercoil. This experiment proved to be successful and in 1897 a small hospital was built. The construction of a number of new buildings and the commencement of a medical class for the training of medical officer competent to take charge of the rural dispensaries extended this branch later in 1900. This medical activity, which owed its successes to Harry Andrew, brought the Salavation Army at an equal footing with the CMS in Travancore. Subsequently, Dr. Percy Brown laid down the course of the programmes of the medical mission. One of the important aims was to impart the evangelistic workers with the rudimentary knowledge relating to hygiene and first aid. This project seeks to highlight the various interesting aspects of the medical activities of the Salvation Army. Dr. Percy Brown and other qualified doctors laid the basis of medical training in Kerala. It would be also be pointed out that though the princely states of Travancore and Cochin differed with the missionaries on religious grounds, they expected the Salvation Army to provide medical relief to the poor. At the same time by patronizing medical institutions, the ruling groups tried to enhance the reputation of the Maharajas as charitable personalities, who followed the convention of Hindu society and dharma.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 1500
Applicant Surname Basu
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2006-08-30T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2005/06
Grant Programme: Title Miscellaneous: Inactive scheme
Internal ID 081517/Z/06/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Raj Basu
Partnership Value 1500
Planned Dates: End Date 2006-11-04T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2006-09-05T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country India
Region International