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The Journal of Bishop Daniel Wilson of Calcutta, 1845-1857 (Hardcover)
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The Journal of Bishop Daniel Wilson of Calcutta, 1845-1857 (Hardcover)
Series: Church of England Record Society
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Daniel Wilson (1778-1858) was a prominent personality in the
British administration of the Indian subcontinent during the
mid-nineteenth century, as Anglican bishop of Calcutta from 1832
and the first metropolitan of India and Ceylon. Daniel Wilson
(1778-1858) was a prominent personality in the British
administration of the Indian subcontinent during the mid-nineteenth
century, as Anglican bishop of Calcutta from 1832 and the first
metropolitan of India and Ceylon. His episcopate coincided with the
final decades of the British East India Company, and his vast
diocese stretched from the Khyber Pass to Singapore. Under his
leadership, the position of the Church of England in India was
consolidated at a formational period for the nascent Anglican
Communion, with the creation of new dioceses, the wide deployment
of chaplains and missionaries, and an aggressive programme of
church building in a colonial landscape dominated by temples and
mosques. Wilson's private journal covers the second half of his
episcopate, beginning with a day-to-day account of his furlough in
England in 1845-46, and including his frequent, lengthy journeys on
visitation to far-flung mission stations. It reveals the
development of his missionary strategies, his relationships with
political and ecclesiastical power-brokers, his attitudes to
Hinduism and Islam, and his confidence in the blessings of European
civilization. The journal also sheds light upon Wilson's
evangelical piety and abhorrence of Tractarianism, as well as his
attempts to discipline immoral and criminous chaplains who brought
public scandal upon thechurch. ANDREW ATHERSTONE is Tutor in
History and Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and a member of
Oxford University's Faculty of Theology and Religion.
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