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Mennonite Church USA Archives American Mennonite Mission (Dhamtari, India)
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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) 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) Charitable Institutions and Stations Records

  • US MCUSAA IV/17/021
  • Collection
  • 1901-1960

Records of the various mission outposts operated by the American Mennonite Mission, including Baloghahan, Dondi, Ghatula, Mohadi, and Sankra.  Also includes records pertaining to the girls' orphanage and the leper asylum.  Materials include reports, correspondence, and ledger books containing records of activities at the various stations.

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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) 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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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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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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