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...R. E. Frykenberg; J. Deyell Tranquebar: A Guide to the Coins of Danish India, Circa 1620 to 1845 . By John C. F. Gray . Lawrence, Mass .: Quarterman Publications , 1974 . 83 pp. Illustrations. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS...

...). (Distributed by Humanities Press, Inc., Atlantic Highlands, N.J.) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 391 Tranquebar: A Guide to the Coins of Danish India, Circa 1620 to 1845. By JOHN C. F. GRAY. Lawrence, Mass.: Quarterman Publications, 1974. 83 pp...

..., conducted his evangelistic and educational work within the Danish-controlled territory of Tranquebar, located on the southeast coast of India. Fredrick IV of Denmark chartered Ziegenbalg and Plutschau as royal missionaries and gave them "the express charge of preaching to and converting Indians" (p. 11...

... infrastructure for modern social identity in Tamil-speaking lands. Dutch Pietists of the Halle Mission first arrived at the port of Tranquebar in southeast India in 1706, and within eight years the first New Testament in Tamil (or any Indian language) and by 1727 the first Old Testament were printed...

... archives, we have been unable to discover to whom it was addressed, to fix the date of the translation into Danish, or to identify positively the John Wood who wrote it. The Danish text was copied into the letter-book of the Danish factory at Tranquebar on the Coromandel Coast in December 1757, six months...

... to Governor Abbestic at Tranquebar Feb. 16, 1768. 11 Records of Fort St. George , Letters to Fort St. George, XXVIII, 49. Richard Bourchier to Nicolas Morse Apr. 27, 1744. 10 Ibid., pp. 472, 501. 9 Prakash Om , “The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1650...

... the distinction may be remembered in parts of Tamil Nadu, but it no longer appears to be significant in caste relations. Constructing the Colonial Encounter focuses on right and left hand caste clashes in the towns of Madras, Tranquebar, and Pondicherry in, mainly, the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...

... is a welcome and pedagogically useful addition to scholarship on the Tamil language. We should also note its significance for Tamil studies in Germany. German missionaries associated with the Danish Protestant mission at Tranquebar, South India, were among the earliest Western scholars to study Tamil...

... on the Tamil language. We should also note its significance for Tamil studies in Germany. German missionaries associated with the Danish Protestant mission at Tranquebar, South India, were among the earliest Western scholars to study Tamil. Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, the first Tranquebar missionary, wrote one...

..., including his own. Daniel Jeyaraj argues that older missionary hagiography has underplayed the significance of indigenous agents. His study of two such agents in the Tamil Lutheran church should be read together with Heike Liebau's recent extended study of several hundred Indian workers in the Tranquebar...

... interactions between Christians and Indian culture within the context of imperial rule. During the early eighteenth century, Ziegenbalg, a Lutheran Pietist minister from Germany, along with Heinrich Plutschau, conducted his evangelistic and educational work within the Danish-controlled territory of Tranquebar...

... in the lives of the "Malabarians," the name for Tamils at that time. This process of appropriation was observed and reacted to by the Muslims and Hindus who lived alongside the early Tamil Christians. Hudson presents the reader with a snapshot of life outside the walls of the New Jerusalem Church in Tranquebar...

...), has signalled the arrival of this new kind of perspective. My own work on the earliest nonCatholic Christians of India, has shown how Vellalar preachers and teachers brought their doctrines from Tranquebar to Thanjuvur and then to Tirunelveli, along with printed materials and schools...

... in Bengal, and the declining influence of the Danish administrative headquarters at Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast. Dr. Feldbaek also shows that greater involvement with British sea-captains, "country traders," and East India Company servants by no means meant stability either for the Danish Company...

... be remembered in parts of Tamil Nadu, but it no longer appears to be significant in caste relations. Constructing the Colonial Encounter focuses on right and left hand caste clashes in the towns of Madras, Tranquebar, and Pondicherry in, mainly, the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Brimnes describes...

... structures and values, as well as the nature of town administrations. He argues, for example, that caste clashes in the tiny Danish colony of Tranquebar in the 1820s, compared to contemporaneous conflicts in Madras Town, show the results of very different economic and political developments between the two...

... and teachers brought their doctrines from Tranquebar to Thanjuvur and then to Tirunelveli, along with printed materials and schools. This "indigenizing" was eventually reflected, as Dennis Hudson has shown, in the now classic writings of H. A. Krishna Pillai, and again in the diary and journals of the mid...

... Christians (pp. 273-308); Quilon (pp. 324-51); Travancore and the Fishery Coast (pp. 483-523). Especially useful, because so much has been published about the Protestant Mission, some slight information was found concerning Tranquebar (pp. 404-05). For most parishes the records were few, discussions of four...

... the German less so. Many Tinnevelly, Tanjore, aries, however, such adaptations to local culture as and Vepery Christians, who proudly identified had been tolerated by the missionaries of the eighthemselves with the Tranquebar (Danish-Halle- teenth and early-nineteenth centuries, all of whom SPCK Mission...

... Organization [HAROLD A. GOULD] FREEMAN, Untouchable: An Indian Life History [OWEN M. LYNCH] FUCHS, The Aboriginal Tribes ofIndia [EDWARD J. JAY] GABORIEAU, Minorites musulmanes dans le royaume hindou du Nepal [DONALD A. MESSERSCHMIDT] GONDA, The Medium in the Rgveda [RICHARD SALOMON] GRAY, Tranquebar: A Guide...