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- ↑ Daniel D. Chetti, Aravind P. Nirmal (Edited), Adventurous faith & transforming vision, Gurukul, Chennai, 1989.
- ↑ Daniel D Chetti, Making Visible: The Role of Women in the Nineteenth Century Protestant Christianity in India, Indian Church History Review, Volume 32, Number 1, June 1998, pp. 12-13. Cited in M. Ezra Sargunam, Samuel Jayakumar, S. Devasagayam Ponraj, Christian contribution to nation building, Mission Educational Books, Madras, 2006, p.180.
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