Mid-India Yearly Meeting

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Mid-India Yearly Meeting
Classification Quaker
Associations Friends World Committee for Consultation
Region Madhya Pradesh, India
Origin
Hoshangabad, India
Branched from London Yearly Meeting
Congregations6
Primary schools 4

Mid-India Yearly Meeting is a yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Madhya Pradesh state in mid-India. [1] Quakerism came to mid-India as a result of missionaries from London Yearly Meeting who were members of the Friends Foreign Mission Association. [2] Missions were established in Mid-India in 1866 by the Friends Foreign Mission Association. [3] Mid-India Yearly Meeting was founded as an independent yearly meeting in 1907 in Hoshangabad. [4]

Madhya Pradesh State in India

Madhya Pradesh is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain and Sagar being the other major cities. Nicknamed the "Heart of India" due to its geographical location, Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian state by area and the fifth largest state by population with over 75 million residents. It borders the states of Uttar Pradesh to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the southeast, Maharashtra to the south, Gujarat to the west, and Rajasthan to the northwest. Its total area is 308,252 km2. Before 2000, when Chhattisgarh was a part of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh was the largest state in India and the distance between the two furthest points inside the state, Singoli and Konta, was 1500 km. Konta is presently in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state.

India Country in South Asia

India is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Hoshangabad City in Madhya Pradesh, India

Hoshangabad also known as Narmadapuram is a City and a municipality in Hoshangabad district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Hoshangabad district and Narmadapuram division. It is located in central India, on the south bank of the Narmada River. Hoshangabad is 76.7km from the state capital Bhopal

There are six monthly meetings in Mid-India Yearly Meeting: Hoshangabad Friends Meeting, Itarsi Friends Meeting, Kheda Friends Meeting (also in Itarsi), Sohagpur Friends Meeting, Seoni Malwa Friends Meeting and Makoriya Friends Meeting. [4] There are three schools in Itarsi which were founded and still run by Friends, but which now belong to the Indian government. [4] There is also the Sohugpur Friends' Girls' School which was founded by Friends and continues to be run by Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends. [4]

In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), a monthly meeting or area meeting is the basic governing body, a congregation which holds regular meetings for business for Quakers in a given area. The monthly meeting is responsible for the administration of its congregants, including membership and marriages, and for the meeting's property. A monthly meeting can be a grouping of multiple smaller meetings, usually called preparative meetings, coming together for administrative purposes, while for others it is a single institution. In most countries, multiple monthly meetings form a quarterly meeting, which in turn form yearly meetings. Programmed Quakers may refer to their congregation as a church.

In 2002, Mid-India Yearly Meeting published a Hindi language version of Britain Yearly Meeting's Advices and Queries, the part of British Quaker Faith and Practice. [5]

Hindi Indo-Aryan language spoken in India

Hindi or Modern Standard Hindi, is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. In India, the official standardized variety of the language is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and other nearby areas of northern India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with the English language. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Contrary to the popular belief, Hindi is not the national language of India because no language was given such a status in the Indian constitution.

Britain Yearly Meeting

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References

  1. 1 2 Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) (April 2009). "List of Meetings". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  2. ↑ Mundus. "Library of the Religious Society of Friends" . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  3. ↑ Haberman, Frederick (1972). Nobel Lectures, Peace, 1926-1950. Nobel Lectures. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Arnett, Mary. "Brief History of Friends in India". Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Archived from the original on 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2016-01-21.
  5. ↑ Gregory, Linley (2004). "Asia - West Pacific Section". Trustees' Report 2003 (PDF). Friends' World Committee for Consultation. p. 10.
  6. ↑ Friends World Committee for Consultation Asia and West Pacific Section. "FWCC Asia and West Pacific Section Affiliated Yearly Meetings and Groups". Friends World Committee for Consultation. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-07-17.


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