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- ↑ Anderson, Gerald H. (29 June 1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802846808 – via Google Books.
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- ↑ Wilson, John (1851). Manuscript Item: "Notebook of John Wilson, Chiefly Containing Miscellaneous Notes and Lists, 1830–1875". Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland. p. f.154v.
- ↑ "East Indies". Scottish Missionary Register. 12 (8): 340. August 1831.
- ↑ Nauroji, Dhanjibhai (1909). From Zoroaster to Christ: An Autobiographical Sketch of the Rev. Dhanjibhai Nauroji, the First Modern Convert to Christianity from the Zoroastrian Religion. Edinburgh and London: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier.
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