After some initial work in Sadiya and Jaipore, On 15th November, 1845 the missionaries established a printing press at Daikolongia gaon of Sibsagar on the bank of the river Dikhow under the name of ‘Sibsagar Mission Press’. Sales of the New Testament and the number of people attending services, being baptised and received into communion all increased rapidly. 2 0 obj At his invitation on 23rd March, 1836, two American Baptists, Nathan Brown and Oliver T. Cutter (a printer) arrived with their families at Sadiya, the easternmost point in Assam (now in the Lohit district of Arunachal). �(�~P!ën)>`!���q�$��K�5YiE�g�G\FK��-J�!��32"X氞����껀a�ؠZ�ϒ�G ��|+2� l��"�d�mv�v�%��5���+��q�I�)~�*e�ف��W�J��0!$_ܠ.����2ܡ0��&����S,���q�T�"�iT4��QHO4;�ә=��9�n����I�=���J���z�,u�q�}0�c�Yh�M������6+4�-�����E���s��x�I�!�=&�n��}? In unequal treaty.

The main person driving that decision was Yorkshireman Samuel Marsden, who had become chaplain to the prison colony of New South Wales in 1794. They also carried a small printing press along with English and Bengali font. x��ZYo��~��@����܋�EҦ3 �Y�@˴�F� K����g�%���#^����;�������I�,/���/L��&)ꤪlV'��/�d��{�����\��y����Ԙ�mz^/�0ا��>=/�m���.I��q�p�ߧ��hR��\��%,�_4FK���O�+�s��uz��?���ixn�Y�D"�&^������㽒�9�����4�����}v鿒�^�x"zs�%c�u] �_`��SQ�e��ͫ�̴eR4�A5�\�ŸF��O���#��Hx���4֩H����[�z�e�P������D�sj�ůi*"��p�Z���� (xT�3R��G�P�4�!-�H���&T��+Z�ui�dNz�1��b酫&������~���yU�M�x�gy�\,A ��NъO�a'^���g�^4]V�����ܶ��r��x.�!S�C�fU+��sߑMy������k0yZz��q�w�N��)�6���tYW���Y�� �����bx$��aL�J���mqm�OzZ��s�.T-�塗g;�X��.�^l �b��8l���my��Dn(��&S)�,��zx��,0��x����{�XI_���\���IO^�e�!�?g^����M��.�I�oL�lX-;�jI�p����%�@{c�p��d�K2����1���?-��e���d�(S/~�����g�_�O���`����X�=���,g�[Q ���G����^� �{ This made the work of the missionaries more difficult. In the weeks after the first signings at Waitangi in February 1840, several copies of the treaty were carried to other parts of the country to be signed.

Treaty of Tientsin Following victory over the Chinese in the Second Opium War, this treaty allowed Britain, France, Russia and the USA to establish embassies in Peking (Beijing). The arrangement lasted till 1838 and thereafter the British gradually annexed the entire region. In further negotiations…The resulting treaties of Tianjin (Tientsin; 1858) supplemented the old treaties by providing for the residence of foreign diplomats in Beijing (Peking), the right of foreigners to travel in the interior of China, the opening of the country’s major waterway, the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), to foreign…During June four Tianjin treaties were concluded that provided for, among other measures, the residence of foreign diplomats in Beijing and the freedom of Christian missionaries to evangelize their faith.…treaties signed in 1858 at Tianjin by the Chinese, British, and French included provisions for them to be revised in the year 1868, at which time the Qing were able to negotiate with due preparations and in an atmosphere of peace for the first time since the Opium Wars.

Protohistory has been reconstructed from folklore: epics like Mahabharata , and two medieval texts compiled in the Assam region—the Kalika Purana and the Yogini Tantra.

In 1826, after the Yandaboo Treaty, the British took over power from the Burmese. Initially the magazine bore the following declaration: "A monthly paper, devoted to religion, science and general intelligence, is printed and published at the Sibsagar Mission Press, by 0.

From January, 1846 to December, 1850 it was called In spite of the propagation of the protestant faith being their primary aim, the missionaries set about to first make the magazine popular among the people, by not only using the Assamese language as the medium but also by illustrating the magazine with wood-block prints so as to make the reported facts easily communicable. The war ended under the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826, with the Company taking control of Western Assam and installing Purandar Singha as king of Upper Assam in 1833. Missionaries and the treaty Although it took 15 years for Māori to adopt Christianity, the religion spread widely in the 1830s. 1 0 obj


The rule of this dynasty ended with the Burmese invasion of Assam and the subsequent annexation by the British East India Company following the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1826. They were en route to Tibet from Hooghly.
Assam lost much of its territory to new states that emerged from within its borders.

However, his Māori version of the treaty was not a literal translation from the English draft and did not convey clearly the cession of sovereignty. Missionaries and church people were often, though not always, involved in defending and publicising the Treaty. endobj <> American Missionaries in China: 1830-1900.