The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D
In Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens

A two-volume, 1879 biography of an early Scottish Presbyterian missionary who influenced educational reform in colonial India.

George Smith (Author)

9781108008303, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 March 2010

572 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 3.2 x 14 cm, 0.72 kg

George Smith (1833–1919) spent many years in India as an educator and editor of the Calcutta Review. He was a great supporter of missionary work and became secretary of the foreign mission committee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. He also wrote popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff (1806–1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia. Volume 2 describes Duff's life from 1843 until his death in 1878, covering his contribution to the 1854 educational reforms in India and the founding of the University of Calcutta.

16. Missionary of the Free Church of Scotland
17. Continuity of the work
18. Lord Hardinge's administration
19. Death of Dr Chalmers
20. Dr Duff organising again
21. Moderator of the General Assembly
22. In America and Canada
23. The mutiny and the native church of India
24. Last years in India
25. In south-east Africa
26. New missions and the result of half a century's work
27. Dr Duff at home
28. Peacemaking
29. Dying
Index.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]