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| Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Dubois | | | First Name(s) | Jean A. | | | Year of Birth | 1765 | | | Year of Death | 1848 | | | Entry | Abbe : ordained at 27 in the diocese of Viviers, in 1792 : escaped from the massacres of the French Revolution, and, the same year, leaving France for mission work under the Missions Etrangeres, was first attached to the Pondicherry mission : after Seringapatam, 1799, he was invited to visit it, to reconvert the forced perverts to Islam. He was 31 years in India, living entirely among the people from 17 to 18 years, chiefly in Mysore, where he established, at Sathalli, an agricultural settlement of reconverted Christians. His Description of the Character, Manners and Customs of the People of India, and of their Institutions, Religious and Civil, was stated to be "" the most correct, comprehensive and minute account extant in any European language of the Hindus "" of S. India : the Madras Government bought the MSS. from him in 1806 for 2,000 pagodas : this was translated in London in 1816, and was for long the only published edition : meanwhile, in 1815, the Abbe had revised and amplified his work, but this was not published until 1897. On returning to France in June, 1823, with a pension from the E.I. Co., he published Letters on the State of Christianity in India, containing his conviction that the conversion of the Hindus was impossible. He became a Director, and, from 1836 to 1839, Superior of the Missions Etrangeres at Paris, where he died Feb. 17, 1848. |
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