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Mennonite Church USA Archives American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)
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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Education Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/006
  • Collection
  • 1915-1964

Committee meeting minutes, primary school reports, scholarship applications, curricula, and other records pertaining to the educational institutions supported by the American Mennonite Mission.  These institutions included the Dhamtari Christian Academy and a number of elementary and vocational schools.  Minutes of the education committee concern the progress of individual students, scholarship awards and the curriculum..

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Medical Committee Meeting Minutes

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/010
  • Collection
  • 1917-1959

Minutes of the body charged with the administration of the mission medical facilities, including the hospital, the leprosaureum, and various dispensaries. After 1952, the Medical Committee was renamed the Medical Council.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Publicity Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/013
  • Collection
  • 1922-1952

Records of the committee charged with educating the public about the work of the American Mennonite Mission in India through print media.  Materials include an account book (1924-1929), meeting minutes (1922-1937, undated), and miscellaneous materials, including statistical reports about Mennonites in India and the beginnings of the Mennonite Church in India (1949-1952).

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Inter-Society Correspondence and Subject Files

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/016
  • Collection
  • 1922-1949

This small series contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, receipts, and other miscellaneous materials documenting interactions between the American Mennonite Mission in India and other Christian agencies in India.  These agencies include: National Christian Council, Mid-India Christian Council, Chhatisgarh Missionary Association, Union Hindi Weekly, N. I. Tract and Book Society, Bible Society, Himalayan School, and the Joint Examening Board.  Correspondence pertaining to a joint hymn book committee may also be found in this series.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Materials

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/019
  • Collection
  • 1900-1960

Assorted records created by the American Mennonite Mission in India, including membership and marriage registers for Indian churches, maps, pamphlets, furniture inventories, hospital records, articles and leaflets, and other miscellaneous materials.  This series includes the statement of comity agreed to by the various denominational mission organizations in India, which stated mission workers' commitment to corking cooperatively rather than competitively.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) American Mennonite Association Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/022
  • Collection
  • 1939-1974

The American Mennonite Association was formed in 1939 to support the financial, educational, travel, and housing needs of missionaries appointed by the Menonite Board of Missions to serve in India.    The association continued to coordinate and oversee the work of  (old) Mennonite Church missionaries who remained in India after the dissolution of the American Mennonite Mission in 1952.  This series contains the association's constitution, meeting minutes, and administrative correspondence, as well as less formal correspondence and telegrams.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Mennonite Church in India Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/017
  • Collection
  • 1912-1966

These records contain the minutes, governing records, correspondence, and other materials documenting the development of the Mennonite Church in India.  The Mennonite Church in India began as a conference of Mennonite congregations under the auspices of the American Mennonite Mission.  In 1952, when the American Mennonite Mission ceased to exist, the Mennonite Church in India became an independent entity.  Of particular interest in these records is the Church Problems and Discipline File, which provides evidence of tensions between indigenous Indian Christians and mission staff regarding authority and power withing the Mennonite Church.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Annual Reports, Meeting Minutes, and Constitutions

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/001
  • Collection
  • 1902-1952

The core records of the American Mennonite Mission, India are divided into three series:

(1) Annual Reports, 1902-1929

(2) Business Meeting Minutes, 1910-1952

(3) Constitution and By-Laws, 1908-1909, 1920

Researchers should note that the only minutes included in these records are the business meeting minutes.  Other meeting minutes may be found elsewhere in the records of the American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India), IV-17.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Financial Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/005
  • Collection
  • 1899-1962

Financial reports, account books, and treasurer's correspondence documenting the financial operations of the American Mennonite Mission in Dhamtari, India.  Researchers should note that real estate records pertaining to properties purchased and sold by the mission may be found in S. Paul Miller's personal papers (HM1-379).

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Photographs

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/023
  • Collection
  • 1899-1968

Consists primarily of miscellaneous pre-1930  photographic prints documenting the Dhamtari mission, its workers, and those served by the mission.  Also includes a scrapbook of the Bihar mission created by Esther and Milton Vogt.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Superintendent's Correspondence and Ledger Books

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/003
  • Collection
  • 1900-1921

Incoming and outgoing admistrative correspondence from the highest office of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Correspondence includes communications between the mission board in the United States as well as Indian government officials.  These records also include ledger books listing the names of donors who provided financial sponsorship of Indian orphans.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Normal Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/008
  • Collection
  • 1922-1949

Scattered records documenting the American Mennonite Mission's teacher training program, which seems to have trained Indian teachers and other workers in Christian education.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Evangelistic Committee Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/007
  • Collection
  • 1907-1952

Committee meeting minutes, evangelism record books, correspondence, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to American Mennonite Mission's efforts to convert Hindu and Muslim Indians to Christianity.  Meeting minutes generally do not discuss overall mission strategy, but focus on the assignments, performance, and financial compensation of Indian evangelists,  The evangelism record books provide in-depth accounts of preaching and books distributed to various villages.  Researchers should be aware, however, that these record books are in Hindi.  Also of interest in this series are the records pertaining to the Bible Women, who evangelized on behalf of the Mennonite mission.  Mennonite missionaries' evaluations of the Bible Women are in English, while the Bible Women's evangelism records are in Hindi.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Auditing Committee Minutes and Reports

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/012
  • Collection
  • 1917-1951

A small set of records documeting the work of the auditing committee, which monitored the financial operations of the American Mennonite Mission in India.  Earliest years of the records include committee minutes; after 1921, only reports were retained.  Researchers should note that reports are not present for all years.

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American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India) Miscellaneous Correspondence

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/018
  • Collection
  • 1904-1951

A hodgepodge of letters that includes correspondence regarding missionaries' passport and residency issues, correspondence with Indian college students sponsored by the mission, letters from mission staff in Elkhart, Ind. circulated among the missionaries, and correspondence pertaining to clothing and bedding orders filled by various Mennonite sewing circles.

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