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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
    "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
    "published_on": "2011"
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      "chunk_title": "Godhula Begins Naga Christian Work",
      "chunk_data": "Godhula, an Assamese evangelist, was the first to undertake a successful Christian work among the Nagas.",
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        "event": "Godhula undertook the first successful Christian work among the Nagas.",
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      "chunk_title": "Exploration Among the Ao Nagas",
      "chunk_data": "After an exploratory journey into the hills occupied by the Ao Nagas in the winter of 1871, he spent the winter months in the village of Dekha Haimong (Molungkimong) during the succeeding years.",
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        "event": "Godhula explored the Ao Naga hills and spent the winter months at Dekha Haimong.",
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      "chunk_title": "First Naga Christian Congregation",
      "chunk_data": "There he gathered the first Naga Christian congregation.",
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        "event": "Godhula gathered the first Naga Christian congregation.",
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      "chunk_title": "Clark Describes the New Naga Work",
      "chunk_data": "In a letter dated October 31, 1872, Edward Clark, who was to become the pioneer foreign missionary among the Nagas, describes the new Naga work. Cited in the Baptist Missionary Magazine, vol. LIII (1873), pp. 51-53.",
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        "people": [
          "Edward Clark"
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          "Naga Hills"
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        "event": "Edward Clark documented the new Naga Christian work in a letter.",
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          "Missionary Work",
          "Primary Sources"
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      "chunk_title": "Godhula Remains During the Rains",
      "chunk_data": "But what shall be done about this Naga work? I had much fear that I should be troubled to keep Goodhula and his wife on the hills during the rains.",
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        "people": [
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          "Edward Clark"
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          "Naga Hills"
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        "event": "Edward Clark feared that keeping Goodhula and his wife in the hills during the rains would be difficult.",
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      "chunk_title": "Nagas Build Godhula a House",
      "chunk_data": "But not so. I presume he would have been down by this date, but he could not persuade the Nagas to delay longer in building him a good house. So he remains to see about that",
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        "time_display": "By October 1872"
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        "people": [
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        "event": "Goodhula remained in the hills because the Nagas were building him a house.",
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      "chunk_title": "The Deka Harmong Hill Settlement",
      "chunk_data": "The Deka Harmong hill, where Goodhula and his wife have lived in good health during the last rainy season, is a low hill, 2,600 or 2,700 feet high, but has no high hills close by.",
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        "time_display": "Rainy season, 1872"
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        "people": [
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          "Goodhula's wife",
          "Edward Clark"
        ],
        "places": [
          "Deka Harmong Hill"
        ],
        "event": "Goodhula and his wife lived in good health on Deka Harmong hill during the rainy season.",
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          "Missionary Work",
          "Geography",
          "Naga Hills"
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      "chunk_title": "Mission Access to Other Naga Villages",
      "chunk_data": "But other Nagas, talking the same language as the Deka Harmong, are on hills 4,000 or 5,000 feet high; villages large and powerful. But these villages, if accessible at all by missions now, must be reached by their own paths, which are by the Detoi River",
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          "Detoi River",
          "Naga Hills"
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        "event": "Edward Clark noted the difficult access to larger Naga villages in the higher hills.",
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          "Missionary Work",
          "Naga Hills"
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      "chunk_title": "Naga Interest in Christianity",
      "chunk_data": "Let me give you a pretty literal translation of one of the last letters from Goodhula. In these days, the Naga people are somewhat anxious about religion. Those calling themselves Christians do so understandingly; thus many people desire to meet me. At the present time there are 25 or 26 persons worshipping with me.",
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        "event": "Goodhula reported growing Naga interest in Christianity and a worshipping group of 25 or 26 people.",
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          "Congregation"
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      "chunk_title": "Naga Fear of Evil Spirits",
      "chunk_data": "The Naga people say that their forefathers, in worshipping evil spirits, found only the way to hell. We passed all our lifetime in fear. That there is death we know; besides this, that after death our spirits went below the earth in company with ghosts, this we learned from the mouth of our forefathers and so knew.",
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        "people": [
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        ],
        "event": "The Naga people described their former fear of death, ghosts, and evil spirits.",
        "tags": [
          "Religion",
          "Beliefs",
          "Christianity"
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      "chunk_title": "Hope of Heaven Through Christianity",
      "chunk_data": "That there is a heaven we knew, but that man could go to heaven, this we never heard.",
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        "event": "The Naga people said they knew of heaven but had never heard that humans could enter it.",
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          "Christianity",
          "Beliefs"
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      "chunk_title": "The New Christian Doctrine",
      "chunk_data": "But against the teachings of our forefathers a new doctrine has appeared; how true! how sweet! When we hear this new story, water appears from the eye.",
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        "people": [
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        "event": "The Naga people responded emotionally to the new Christian doctrine.",
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          "Conversion",
          "Religion"
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      "chunk_title": "The Gospel Is Sweeter Than Arrack",
      "chunk_data": "Much sweeter than all arrack, and than all pig meat do we find this narrative. To continually hear this, our minds strongly desire.",
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        "event": "The Naga people expressed their strong desire to continue hearing the Christian message.",
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      "chunk_title": "Goodhula's House of Rest",
      "chunk_data": "Goodhula's is our happy house. In his house we find rest from all anxiety and misery. How strange !",
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          "Goodhula's house",
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        "event": "The Naga people regarded Goodhula's house as a place of happiness and relief from anxiety and misery.",
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