McLeish, Alexander [compiler]. The Christian Handbook of India: 1954-55. Mhow, India: Published for The National Christian Council of India by the World Dominion Press, 1955. [7875]
Blue cloth spine with blue printed paper over card, former owner's paper address label to front, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, xvi., 360 clean pp., tight, adverts to end papers and one advert card attached by string inside front cover. Very good. Hardcover.
"This Handbook is a fresh attempt to state the factual situation of the Christian Church in India. The steady passing of much that hitherto has been controlled by Missions has created a new situation. Areas such as Assam, Andhra, and Travancore are now so definitely the fields of the Church and its Mission that they have been treated accordingly...Out of the total of 10,000 names indexed (more than half of which are Indian) about 3,200 new names have been added and an almost equal amount deleted." - Compiler's Introduction.
The major divisions of this book are: Churches, Missions and other Christian Organizations; Statistics; Directory of States; Institutions; Periodicals; Indices.