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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
    "book_author": "M. K. Kuriakose",
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      "chunk_title": "Royal Declaration and Missionaries",
      "chunk_data": "52. ROYAL DECLARATION GIVEN BY FREDERICK IV\nOF DENMARK TO THE FIRST PROTESTANT\nMISSIONARIES TO INDIA (1705 A.D.)\nThe first Protestant missionaries to serve in India, Ziegenbalg\nand Plutschau of Halle University in Germany, were sent under the\npatronage of Frederick IV, King of Denmark. This Declaration\nconstituted their authorisation and instructions. Cited in J. Fred\nFenger, History of the Tranquebar Mission, Appendix I, pp. 309-311.",
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      "chunk_data": "Letter of Appointment\nWe, Frederick IV etc., do hereby make known to all concerned,\nthat We in Our Royal favour have engaged and appointed, and do\nherewith engage and appoint Mr. Bartholomew Ziegenbalg, to go\nas a Missionary from here to Eastern India, and there to apply\nhimself with all diligence to instruct the heathens who dwell within\nOur territory and on the borders thereof, in the holy doctrine, as\nset forth in God's Word and professed in the Symbolic Books of\nthis realm agreeing to the Augsburg Confession, and to bring them\nto the knowledge of salvation, according to the further terms of\nthe instruction, which We in Our Royal favour shall for that purpose\ncommunicate to him. Our greeting etc.",
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      "chunk_title": "Instructions for Plutschau",
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      "chunk_data": "2. Having by the grace of God safely arrived in the country,\nhe shall, in the name of Jesus, heartily calling upon the same, at\nonce begin the work for which he is sent out, and shall labour\namong the pagans, as existing circumstances shall make it prac-\nticable.",
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