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EDINBURGH AND LONDON

THE HISTORY

OF

PROTESTANT MISSIONS

IN INDIA,

FROM THEIR COMMENCEMENT IN 1706 TO 1871.

BY THE

REV. M. A. SHERRING, M.A., LL.B., LOND.

MISSIONARY OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY; FELLOW OF THE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE BENGAL ASIATIC SOCIETY;

Author of "The Indian Church during the Mutiny," "The Sacred City of the

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