The British Missionaries have said to have a great influence or whole remote control over the Maharaj Libel Case. The foreign missionary organizations too have directly or indirectly confessed this, and we shall now see how what they say on Maharaj Libel Case
For three generations, Dr Norman Macleod was a
Scottish clergyman and an ordained priest promoted in 1869/1870, to the
post of
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He, his
father
and grandfather, all three were the Clergies and Ordained Minister
(Priest) for
the churches.
Dr Norman Macleod visited India
in connection with Scotch Missions, and he with his colleague
Dr. John Wilson
addressed the conference of missionaries at St. Andrew’s
Church located at
Bandra, Bombay.
Dr Wilson during his speech confessed that
Christian
Churches were too heavily corrupt and that in Bombay
charges against
Maharajas in the ‘great’ libel case were greatly exaggerated!!
Speaking
further in a conference full of missionaries assembled to
report on the work of
their Indian Missions, to the Church of Scotland, Dr. Wilson
criticized and
charged Hindus with thoughtlessness on religious questions!!
This man Dr John Wilson FRS (11 December 1804 – 1 December
1875) was the member
of The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural
Knowledge. He and his wife
Margaret Bayne, both arrived at Bombay in 1829 being the
Scottish Christian
missionary supported by the Church of Scotland. After leaning
the Marathi, Dr.
John Wilson established the Ambroli Church at Bombay.
During 1830-1831, Dr. Wilson engaged in debates with Hindu
apologists in
Bombay, with an intention to prove Hindu's theology wrong and
scandalous, and
finally convert them to Christianity.
It's the Great Unfortune for Indians that such a man who has
been staunch
missionary from generations and who had travelled to India all
the way back
from Scotland, to convert Hindus to Christianity, was called
as a
Subject-Matter Expert (SME) to give his opinions. This shows
that the British
Government, backed by the Royal Family of UK, and Church of
Scotland, were all
involved in these fake allegations against Hindus so being a
Hindu becomes of
topic of deep-shame and disgrace finally leading them to
accept Christianity.
The whole newspaper (The Glasgow
Herald - Tuesday, January 7th 1868) can be read for free, at
the following
link:
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=lEU-AAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA3&dq=Maharaj%20Libel%20Case&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false
"Christian work - Magazine of Religious and Missionary Information" was a periodical magazine published from London. As it's very name suggests, it was a magazine that was published to spread the progress of Christian Missionary's activities. It contained papers of information on the Christian work of the missionaries and criticism of the non-Christians. It also contained the letters from the missionary agents from all over the world describing the events which affected the Christian Work. New Books bearing the Christian Works were Also published in this magazine.
In short, it was a complete toolkit of Missionaries to convert the non-believers to Christianity. We shall see the excerpts from the magazine's January 1864 Edition Part 1, which was originally published on March 1863, describing the missionaries’ activities, progress, and the criticism of the non-Christians, and all information of the Christian Work the Maharaj Libel Case.
The magazine is preserved in the New York Public Library, and thanks to the Google's Digitization Program, this magazine is available for free to read at the following link: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LlxNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=Maharaj%20Libel%20Case&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwios-zFiMeGAxUmbmwGHdV8HtsQ6AF6BAhAEAI
mso-ansi-language: EN">This history compilation was done on the 1890 the Jubilee Year of the Foreign Mission of Presbyterian Church in Ireland.
mso-ansi-language: EN">Rev. Robert Jeffrey, the author, states that all other churches working by its side in India have their special mission histories and biographical sketches of prominent Missionaries, published.
mso-ansi-language: EN">Author Revered Robert Jeffrey himself stated the reason behind publishing this book, on page 9 of the said book the Author says and I quote
“For so far no records of a like sort have been written, save fugitive, in connection with our Mission. Yet the years of its life and work for the past half century in Kathiawar and Gujarat have been as rich in stimulating facts, triumphs of grace, reminiscences of devoted men, and sovereign mercies, as the years of the life and work of any other Mission to the heathen. Why, then, should its record not be written out too, that it may be plain to the generations to come what was done by their fathers?”
mso-ansi-language: EN">On the page number 104 of the said book, the following is said
mso-ansi-language: EN">The whole book can be read for free, at the following link: https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Indian_Mission_of_the_Irish_Presbyte/21BGAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
“The Indian Evangelical Review; A Quarterly
Journal of Missionary Thought and Effort” Volume VI Year 1879, has
described
Dr. Alexander Duff’s last seven years in India.
He was a Moderator of the General Assembly and convener of the foreign missions committee of the Free Church of Scotland and a scientific liberal reformer of anglicized evangelism across the Empire. He was the first overseas missionary of the Church of Scotland to India.
Missionaries discussing the Christianizing of India and Indian people who had migrated to other enslaved colonies.
There the discussion of Maharaj Libel Case 1862 was also brought up and copies of the report of the case was distributed among fellow missionaries assembled in the meeting.
The whole book can be read for free, at the following link: https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Indian_Evangelical_Review/pLQOAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Maharaj%20Libel%20Case&pg=RA2-PA92&printsec=frontcover
Dr John Wilson, one of the witnesses against the
Maharaj, after the victory at court, had a large public meeting
to present a
testimonial to
Mr
Karsandas Mulji praising him for
his efforts in Maharaj Libel Case -1862.
This incident is covered in The Sunday Magazine Volume 8
published in 1865.
This was published by Strahan & Company headed by Alexander
Strahan
(1833–1918).
His company,Alexander Strahan & Co., based at Ludgate Hill in London, published
what was arguably
one of the dominant periodicals in the 1860s, a monthly magazine
called Good
Words which also published the false accessions on the Hindus
helping the
Missionary work.
Born in Edinburgh, he was a Scottish Presbyterian Evangelical.
This
Presbyterian church is the same one why had published "The
Indian Mission
of the Irish Presbyterian Church A History of Fifty Years of
Work in Kathiawar
and Gujarat" book glorifying their achievements in
christianizingIndia. Credit for Maharaj Libel Case and its tremendous success
for missionary purposes was also claimed by this church.
After moving to London in 1862 Alexander Strahan widened his
interest to
include the literature of Christian social reform firmly fixed
on the workings
of Christian belief
The whole magazine can be read for free, at the following link:
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Sunday_Magazine/8-6I1dcyl-8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Maharaj%20Libel%20Case&pg=PA522&printsec=frontcover
This incident is the best example to understand उष्ट्राणां च विवाहेषु गीतं गायन्ति गर्दभा : परस्परं प्रशंसन्ति अहो रुपमहो ध्वनि:
Donkeys are singing song in a weddings of camels. Both are praising each other, (donkeys say) how beautiful (camels are), (camels say) what a pleasant voice (of donkeys. i.e. donkeys are good singers). This is a typical scenario in a gathering of low calibre persons. None of them is of any excellence, but they praise each other, either because they don't know what is excellence, or because they want some mental satisfaction