Jeremiah Phillips

Jeremiah Phillips (1812–1879) was an American Baptist missionary to the Santals under the Free Baptist Missionary Society in India.[1][2]

He is credited for opening up the first educational facility for the Santals and a farming colony for the Christian Santals at Jellasore, Odisha(formerly Orissa). He also reduced the language of Santals to writing and introduced a written system of clerical administration and missionary work among Santal tribals—laying the foundation of the Bengal–Orissa Baptist Mission among the Bengali people, Odia people, and Santals.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b Shavit, David (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 397–398. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
  2. ^ a b Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 534. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.