{ "book_metadata": { "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials", "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose", "publisher": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge", "published_on": "2011" }, "chunks": [ { "chunk_index": 1, "chapter_name": "1827. Charter of Incorporation of Serampore College", "page_numbers": [ 109 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00133-fdd2179e0758d664dc15.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Serampore College Charter", "chunk_data": "83. CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF SERAMPORE COLLEGE (1827 A.D.)\nThe Royal Charter of Incorporation, given by the King of Denmark, following a visit of Dr. Marshman in 1827, gave the Serampore College the authority to award degrees in different faculties. It was the first College in India to secure this status. Cited in George Howells, The Story of Serampore and its College, Appendix II, pp. 106-108.", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1827, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Joshua Marshman", "George Howells" ], "places": [ "Serampore", "India", "Denmark" ], "event": "The Danish Royal Charter granted Serampore College authority to award degrees in different faculties.", "tags": [ "Education", "Religion", "Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 2, "chapter_name": "1827. Charter of Incorporation of Serampore College", "page_numbers": [ 109 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00133-fdd2179e0758d664dc15.webp" ], "chunk_title": "Founders Petition the King", "chunk_data": "We Frederick the Sixth, by the Grace of God, King of Denmark the Venders and Gothers, Duke of Slesvig Holsten, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Limessborg and Oldenborg, by these writings make known and publicly declare, that whereas William Carey and Joshua Marshman, Doctors of Divinity, and John Clark Marshman, Esq., inhabitants of our town Fredericksnagore (or Serampore) in Bengal, being desirous of founding a College to promote piety and learning particularly among the native Christian population of India, have to secure this object erected suitable buildings and purchased and collected suitable books, maps, etc., and have humbly besought us to grant unto them and such persons as shall be elected by them and their successors to form the Council of the College in the manner to be hereafter named, our Royal Charter of Incorporation that they may the more effectually carry into execution the purposes above-mentioned:", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1827, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Frederick VI", "William Carey", "Joshua Marshman", "John Clark Marshman" ], "places": [ "Fredericksnagore", "Serampore", "Bengal", "India", "Denmark" ], "event": "William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and John Clark Marshman petitioned Frederick VI for a charter to establish a college for piety and learning among India's native Christians.", "tags": [ "Education", "Religion", "Politics" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 3, "chapter_name": "1827. Charter of Incorporation of Serampore College", "page_numbers": [ 109 ], "image_paths": [ "raw\\pages\\00133-fdd2179e0758d664dc15.webp" ], "chunk_title": "The Charter Is Granted", "chunk_data": "We being desirous to encourage so laudable an undertaking, have of our special grace and free motion ordained, constituted, granted and declared, and by these presents we do for ourselves, our heirs and successors ordain, constitute, grant and declare:", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1827, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "Frederick VI" ], "places": [ "Denmark", "Serampore" ], "event": "Frederick VI formally granted and declared the Royal Charter of Incorporation.", "tags": [ "Politics", "Religion", "Law" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 4, "chapter_name": "1827. 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That the said William Carey, Joshua Marshman and John Clark Marshman, and such other person or persons as shall successively be elected and appointed the Council of the said College, in the manner hereafter mentioned, shall by virtue of these presents be for ever thereafter one body politic and incorporate by the name of the Serampore College for the purpose aforesaid to have perpetual succession and to have a common seal, and by the said name to use and to be used, to implead and to be impleaded, and to answer and be answered unto in every court and place belonging to us, our heirs and successors", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1827, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "William Carey", "Joshua Marshman", "John Clark Marshman" ], "places": [ "Serampore" ], "event": "The charter incorporated the founders and future council members as the perpetual governing body of Serampore College.", "tags": [ "Law", "Education", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 5, "chapter_name": "1827. 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And We do hereby further ordain, grant and declare that the Statutes thus made and established by the said three members of the first Council and given or left in writing under their respective hands, shall be valid and in full force at the expiration of ten years from the date of these presents, so that no further Council of the College shall have power to alter, change or vary them in any manner whatever, and that the statutes shall for ever be considered the constitution of the said College.", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1837, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827; effective after ten years, c. 1837" }, "meta": { "people": [ "William Carey", "Joshua Marshman", "John Clark Marshman" ], "places": [ "Serampore" ], "event": "The first Council's written statutes were declared valid after ten years and established as the permanent constitution of Serampore College.", "tags": [ "Law", "Education", "Governance" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 6, "chapter_name": "1827. 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And We further appoint, grant and declare that the said William Carey, Joshua Marshman and John Clark Marshman, the members of the first Council, and their successors for ever shall have the power of conferring upon the students of the said College, native Christians as well as others, degrees of rank and honour according to their proficiency in as ample a manner as any other such College, yet the said Serampore College shall only have the power of conferring such degrees on the students that testify their proficiency in Science, and no rank or other special right shall be connected therewith in our dominions.", "time": { "start_year": 1827, "start_month": null, "start_date": null, "end_year": 1827, "end_month": null, "end_date": null, "time_display": "1827 AD" }, "meta": { "people": [ "William Carey", "Joshua Marshman", "John Clark Marshman" ], "places": [ "Serampore", "India", "Denmark" ], "event": "The first Council and its successors received authority to confer degrees of rank and honour on students who demonstrated proficiency in science.", "tags": [ "Education", "Law", "Religion" ] } }, { "chunk_index": 8, "chapter_name": "1827. 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