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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",
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      "chunk_title": "Maryabad Village Description",
      "chunk_data": "This is a description of the establishment and subsequent history of a Roman Catholic village in the Punjab.",
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      "chunk_title": "Source of the Maryabad Account",
      "chunk_data": "It is found in Missiones-Relatio Missionis Lahorensi', Analecta Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum, pp. 67-70.",
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        "event": "The account of Maryabad is identified as coming from a Capuchin missionary source.",
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      "chunk_data": "Three months later, on April 3rd 1893, Father Felix and Father Desire were sent out to the new settlement to minister to the spiritual wants of the pioneers and to guide them in their labours.",
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        "event": "Father Felix and Father Desire were sent to minister to the pioneers and guide their work in the new settlement.",
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        "event": "The Christian population of Maryabad increased to about 500.",
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      "chunk_title": "Maryabad Colony Expands",
      "chunk_data": "At that time a favourable and unique opportunity offered itself: five hundred acres of adjacent land were bought from S. Gulab Singh for Rs. 25,000, in order to increase the size of the individual holdings hitherto too small for profitable working.",
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      "chunk_title": "Famine Refugees Reach Maryabad",
      "chunk_data": "During the years of famine (1895-96) several Protestant families who had leased land from Mahommedan or Hindu colonists had to leave their holdings and not knowing where to go came to Maryabad where they were allowed to stay.",
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      "chunk_title": "Settlers Sustain Themselves",
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      "chunk_title": "Felix Supports Colonial Work",
      "chunk_data": "To work the colony successfully Fr. Felix helped them to buy bullockcarts, found them work in transporting the produce of his land and that of the surrounding villages to the nearest market, etc.",
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        "event": "Fr. Felix helped the settlers obtain bullock carts and employment transporting agricultural produce to market.",
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      "chunk_data": "Others had to burn bricks, others, again, had to help in the erection of the various large and beautiful buildings of Maryabad, and thus by thrift and careful administration all the people became happy and prosperous.",
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        "event": "The settlers made bricks and helped construct Maryabad's buildings, becoming prosperous through thrift and careful administration.",
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        "event": "The foundation stone of a chapel was laid at Maryabad.",
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