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- 1 2 W. G. Carder, Hand to the Indian Plow: Volume One, Carder, Hyderabad, 1976, Appendix II, p.11.
- ↑ Published posthumously.
- ↑ Archibald Gordon, The opal sky of India: An autobiography, Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board, Toronto, 1969.
- 1 2 C. L. Johnson (Edited), Canadian Baptist Mission 125 years Jubilee Celebrations of Baptist Churches in Northern Circars, Baptist Theological Seminary, Kakinada, 1999, p.217-219.
- ↑ Jarold Knox Zeman, Costly vision: the Baptist pilgrimage in Canada, Welch Publishing Company, Ontario, 1988, p.156.