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Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon

by James Kennedy

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Kennedy recalls his voyage to India in 1839 and his decades as a missionary in Benares, the holy city of the Hindus, and later in the hill country of Kumaon. He describes the city, its religious gatherings and the life of the European community, and the uneasy years of the Sikh wars and the Mutiny.

A missionary memoir of British India, written with the convictions of its time and a long acquaintance with its people. Download the free EPUB.

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