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HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN Danish- India ,Tranquebar, Christian VII (1766-1808), 4 kas DAC (Dansk Asiatisk Compagni)1771 AD The colonies included the town of Tranquebar in present-day Tamil Nadu state, Serampore in presentday West Bengal, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In 1777 it was turned over to the government by the chartered company and became a Danish crown colony. As time went on British entered scene. Serampore was sold to the British in 1839, and Tranquebar and most minor settlements in 1845 and by 1868 all Danish rights were sold to Britain. 130
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN VOC coins Danish King Christian IV Calvin The Danish crown actively supported the mission work in their colonies. The small Danish territories on the subcontinent became centers of education and bookprinting. The first missionary from Denmark to go to India was Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, who arrived in Tranquebar in 1705. Under the Danish Halle Mission, a mission of the Lutheran Church of Danmark two students Bartholomaes Ziegenbalg and his classmate Heinrich Plutschau reached Tranquebar. Both learned Tamil quickly and worked at scripture translation. Ziegenbalg completed the Tamil New Testament in 1711. As the translation was in progress in 1709 he requested a printing press from Denmark. The Danes forwarded the appeal to London to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge who shipped out a printing press along with type, paper, ink, and a printer in 1712 to Tranquebar. The New Testament was printed as a result in 1712. Ziegenbalg writes: “We may remember on this Occasion, how much the Art of Printing contributed to the Manifestation of divine Truths, and the spreading of Books for that End, at the Time of the happy Reformation, which we read of in History, with Thanksgiving to Almighty God.” He started the translation of Old Testament soon after but dies without completing the work. Their work was opposed both by militant Hindus and by the local Danish authorities. In 1707/08, Ziegenbalg spent four months in prison on a charge that by converting the natives, he was encouraging rebellion. Ziegenbalg was a prolific writer, composing works in German, Tamil, Portuguese and Latin which include dictionaries, hymnbooks, translations both into and out of Tamil, school textbooks, catechisms, sermons, and book catalogues. Many of these works are extant, in print or manuscript Plutschau returned to Europe in 1711; Ziegenbalg, after making at least 350 converts in his last year of ministry, died in Tranquebar in 1719 at the age of thirty-six. Ziegenbalg had many Indological writings which were not published until a century of later They included Nidiwunpa (Malabari moral philosophy), Kondei Wenden (Malabari morals,) Ulaga Nidi (Malabari civil justice), and several books on Hindusim and Islam Ziegenbalg and his fellow missionaries believed that they needed to share the “new” technologies in order to spread the good word. In the process, they ensured that the printed word would spread to other parts of India–Bombay, Bengal, Madras. 131
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