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Subject Religious activities Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

11. EAP454/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/3
Title:
Pi Thanbuangi's collection of Dr. Zokhuma's materials [1914-1977]
Scope & Content:
The custodian, Pi Thanbuangi, said that much more material is available; however, she is planning to publish these materials and did not wish to share them with us, considering they would then be made freely and publicly available. She mentioned that her records are kept in two places: in her ow...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Lushai
Date Range:
2 Dec 2011
Extent:
104 Tiff images

12. EAP454/3/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/3/1
Title:
Thalak Tinreng Photo Album [1942-1977]
Scope & Content:
An album of photographs collected by Dr. Zokhuma. He has pasted the photographs in seemingly random order inside a register book. The photographs range in date from 1942 to 1977. Themes include family, important persons, travels around northeast India (Assam, Tripera, Guwahati), graduations, ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Lushai
Date Range:
1942-1977
Extent:
78 Tiff images

13. EAP454/3/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/3/2
Title:
Paper records of Dr. Zokhuma [1914-1945]
Scope & Content:
Three of the earliest matriculation certificates available in Lushai Hills (today's Mizoram). All bear the seal of the University of Calcutta. The certificates are of both Dr. Zokhuma and his father, T. Luaia, the son of M. Suaka, legendary chief of Durtlang. Also included is Dr. Zokhuma's p...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1945
Extent:
7 Tiff images

14. EAP454/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/4
Title:
Pi Lalzami's collection, consisting of a single manuscript [undated]
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of one, bound manuscript called Pathian Robawm, which was an important early publication in Christian literature in South Lushai Hills. Collection consists of one, rare, bound manuscript. Additional online resources from the Lushai Hillas are available at the British Mu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Lushai
Date Range:
15 Oct 2011
Extent:
316 Tiff images

15. EAP454/4/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/4/1
Title:
Pathian Robawm. God's Treasure Chest [undated]
Scope & Content:
Sermons on and interpretations of the Bible are provided, through the lens of the local Lushai culture. The language structure is noticeably archaic. It reflects a British understanding of the local language, and feels unwieldy to modern readers of Mizo. English idiom is detectable in the lan...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Lushai
Date Range:
1914-1977
Extent:
316 Tiff images

16. EAP454/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/6
Title:
Reverend C. L. Hminga's Collection of Ecclesiastical Records and Early Photographs [1914-1940]
Scope & Content:
This collection is centred on South Lushai Hills and Serkawn--regions typically underrepresented in Mizoram's historiography. Particularly strong on ecclesiastical themes, the collection contains rare photographs of the earliest Lushai evangelists, pastors, nurses, and printers, as well as two m...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 2011
Extent:
199 Tiff images

17. EAP454/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/6/2
Title:
Paper records of Reverend C. L. Hminga [1916-1942]
Scope & Content:
1) Record of literary works published as of March 1916 by Baptist Missionary Society pioneer missionary Rev. J. H. Lorrain. 2) An letter from the University of Cambridge addressed to missionary J. H. Lorrain acknowledging the receipt of Lorrain's colossal life-work, the Dictionary of the Lushai ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1942
Extent:
2 Tiff images

18. EAP454/6/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/6/3
Title:
Among the Lushais [1914]
Scope & Content:
This book follows Herbert Anderson (then Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society in Calcutta, and thus a supervisor to the activities of the BMS in South Lushai Hills) on his tour through Lushai Hills. The book covers: Anderson's journey; the contemporary village of Serkawn; a discussion of...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
68 Tiff images

19. EAP454/6/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/6/4
Title:
Set on a Hill: the Record of Fifty Years in the Lushai Country [1944]
Scope & Content:
This book came out of the author's 1928 visit to Lushai Hills, where she was asked to compile a book outlining a history of the previous decades' work. The book is thus an important record of the early days of Christianization in Lushai Hills (today's Mizoram), and contains valuable information...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
40 Tiff images

20. EAP454/6/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP454/6/5
Title:
Lorrain of the Lushais [1944]
Scope & Content:
Geared mainly towards younger generations contemporary to its publication in the mid-1940, this book characterizes the story of missionary J. H. Lorrain's experiences in Lushai Hills as “one of the great romances of the mission field” (p. 3). It contains some photographs. This book has been bo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1944
Extent:
47 Tiff images