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In June 1882 the missionary Albert Ihle, who was in charge of the main Danish mission station in South India at the time — Siloam in the village of Tirukkoyilur — reported an episode that had taken place in the nearby village of Iddayar, where the missionaries had recently opened a day school:
It was in the middle of the night, he [the schoolteacher Bakianandan], his wife, and children were sleeping in the school building and were woken by a crackling sound above their heads. B[akianandan] rushed out and called Perumal whose house lies nearby. Children and furniture were saved and they saw the arsonist, a man who had [ineligible] several threats against the Christians and threatened to set fire to the school and drive us out.1
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Vallgårda, K. (2015). Controversy and Collapse: On Christian Day Schools. In: Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432995_3
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