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Annotation translation: "In former times girls and women were, except in exceptional cases, excluded from schooling, because Hindus believed education would make girls incapable of carrying out their future household tasks and free them from their subjection to the world of men. Because of this heathen prejudice it was extremely difficult for the Mission(s) to build up and maintain schools for girls. But they did succeed, and now hundreds of thousands of girls attend schools run by the Government and the Missions in India. The first schools are mostly under the direction of missionary wives and European women teachers, but they are assisted by thousands of indigenous assistants, who have themselves been to schools to train fhem for this task. An indescribably great blessing flows from these schools into the oppressed world of Indian women and indeed into the life of the whole people." Annotation: "In früheren Zeiten war in Indien das weibliche Geschlecht mit seltener Ausnahme gänzlich von allem Schulunterricht ausgeschlossen, weil die Hindu glaubten, derselbe würde die Mädchen für ihre künftigen häuslichen Aufgaben unbrauchbar machen und sie aus der Untertänigkeit gegen die Männerwelt emporheben. Diesem heidnischen Vorurteil gegenüber war es für die Mission ausserordentlich schwierig Mädchenschulen einzurichten und aufrechtzuerhalten. Aber das schwere Unternehmen gelang, und nun besuchen in Indien hunderttausende von Mädchen die Missions- und Regierungsschulen. Die Ersteren sind meist unter der Leitung von Missionsfrauen und europäischen Lehrerinnen, denen bereits tausende von eingebornen Gehilfinnen zur Seite stehen, die selbst in diesen Schulen für ihr Amt herangebildet wurden. Unbeschreiblich gross ist der Segen, der aus diesen Schulen schon für die unterdrückte Frauenwelt Indiens und für das ganze Volk geflossen ist." Note: Bildlieferant: Missionsbuchhandlung. (C-30-0,1). Note translation: Probably handed over to the collection by the mission bookshop. (C-30-0,1).
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image
Format
print, letterpress halftone, colour (HD) postcard, 8.8 x 12.6 cm.
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