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FIRST PROTESTANT MISSIONARY TO INDIA | TAMIL NATIVE ON RETURN VOYAGE TO EUROPE¶ 24 p. | 4to | A-C^4 | 233 x 189 mm ¶ Second edition of this ruminating letter on the author's missionary work in India, following the first of the year prior. Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719) and Heinrich Pluetschau (b. 1677) were the first Protestant missionaries to India, landing in Tranquebar on 9 July 1706. While Pluetschau's task was to work with the Portuguese-speaking community, Ziegenbalg undertook the more difficult task of working in native Tamil. Through his work, he became a prolific producer of Tamil texts. "He had his translations, tracts and letters copied by hand on to palm leaves by up to 12 copyists and distributed them to interested Muslims and Hindus" (Hudson). In 1713, he installed a Tamil printing press brought from Halle. He conversed with his congregants regularly, and, "as a result of his studious efforts to understand whatever wisdom the Tamils had, Ziegenbalg ended up producing… Read More