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Signature. Maharaja Sir Duleep Singh, GCSI (6 September 1838 – 22 October 1893), also spelled Dalip Singh, [ 1 ] and later in life nicknamed the "Black Prince of Perthshire ", [ 2 ] was the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. He was Maharaja Ranjit Singh 's youngest son, the only child of Maharani Jind Kaur. [ 3 ]
Christianity is the predominant religion in the North East states of Nagaland, MizoramMeghalaya, and Manipur, and has substantial populations in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goaand Andaman Nicobar Islands.
William Pettigrew (5 January 1869 – 19 January 1943) was a British Christian missionary who went to India in 1890, eventually brought western education in Manipur and introducing Jesus Christ to the Tangkhul Naga tribe, inhabiting Ukhrul district and he became the main catalyst for the surge in current christian population in Manipur. [ 1 ]
E. Stanley Jones. Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973) was an American Methodist Christian missionary, theologian, and author. He is remembered for his interreligious lectures to the educated classes in India. His seminal work, The Christ of the Indian Road (ISBN 0-687-06377-9), sold more than a million copies worldwide after its publication in 1925.
The Inquisition originally targeted New Christians, that is Jews who had been force-converted to Christianity and who migrated from Portugal to India between 1505 and 1560. [5] Later it added in Moors, a term that meant Muslims who had previously invaded the Iberian peninsula from Morocco .
Rochunga Pudaite (4 December 1927 – 10 October 2015) was an Indian minister of Hmar descent. He translated the Bible into the Hmar language [1] and founded Bibles for the World. He was a renowned speaker and an evangelist. His organisation, Bibles for the World, has allowed distribution of the Christian Bible to millions of people around the ...
Edward Winter Clark (E. W. Clark) (February 25, 1830 [1] – March 18, 1913) was an American missionary. Clark is known for his pioneering missionary work in Nagaland and for his work on transcribing the spoken Ao language into a written script. [2][3] Clark created the first bilingual dictionary of the Ao language and along with his wife, Mary ...
Religion in India is characterised by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture and the Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's major religions, namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and ...