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    "book_name": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
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      "chunk_data": "71. SELECTIONS FROM THE EAST INDIA COMPANY CHARTER OF 1813\nEver since Wilberforce's proposals to make education and religious improvement a responsibility of the Company in India were defeated in 1793, Evangelicals within the Company and the British Parliament had agitated to change the policy. When the Company charter was revised again, in 1813, they were largely successful. Though the Company was not to assume direct responsibility for missionary work it was now directed to allow missionaries sent by other British agencies to work in its Indian territories; and the Company was made responsible for the maintenance of a religious establishment for the benefit of the British residents. The relevant resolutions and sections are given here. Cited in C. J. Grimes, Towards an Indian Church, pp. 224-229.",
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