EAP835: Jaffna Protestant digital archive – Pilot project
EAP971: Jaffna Protestant digital archive – Major project
This collection of digitized documents from institutional and private archives spans the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Items include church record books with registries of baptisms and marriages, religious tracts, school magazines, instructions, reports and correspondence about missionary activities and ordinations, many papers related to Alexander Johnston, and two needlework samplers with Bible quotations in Tamil and English. Many documents are in English, but there is also a significant number of Tamil compositions, including translations of English texts on medicine and Christianity, as well as original Tamil works of prose and poetry, mostly on Christian topics, with many intended to be used as textbooks or readers in schools.
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