Bible Society of India

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The Bible Society of India
BSI
Predecessor The British and Foreign Bible Society in India and Ceylon
Formation 1 November 1944[1]
Founder The British and Foreign Bible Society
Founded at Nagpur[1]
Type Bible Society
Legal status Trust
Purpose Literary
Headquarters Bangalore
Location
Region
Indian subcontinent
Services Contribution, Translation, Printing, Distribution
Official language
English
Secretary General
Rev. Dr. M. Mani Chacko, CSI[2]
President
Rev. P. N. S. Chandra Bose[2]
1st Vice President
Rt. Rev. P. C. Singh,[2] CNI
2nd Vice President
Smt. Starla Luke[2]
3rd Vice President
Rev. Vanlalbela,[2] PSI
Main organ
The Bible Society of India Trust Association
Parent organization
United Bible Societies
Subsidiaries 16
Affiliations National Council of Churches in India
Budget (2014[3])
Rs.113,913,000.00[3]
Slogan Applying God's word in the world
Website http://www.bsind.org/index.html
Formerly called
The Bible Society of India and Ceylon

The Bible Society of India is a Christian body that is authorized to translate, produce, distribute and market the Bible and is a member of the United Bible Societies.

The motto of the Society is to translate the word of God in languages, which people can understand, and produce the scriptures (normally in book form) at a price people could afford to buy. The Bible Society works together with many organizations in India to translate the Bible into various languages of India. The Bible is now available in 65 Indian languages, the New Testament in 70 additional languages,[4] and Scripture portions in 48 languages.[5]

History

List of General Secretaries[6]

(Period, Name of the General Secretary )

On 21 February 1811, a meeting was held at "at the college of Fort William for the propriety of instituting a Bible Society, as Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society established in London", entitled as "The Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society" with the same objectives as those in London." This Auxiliary Bible Society in Serampore, West Bengal first began attempt to coordinate supply Scriptures to existing Christians in Portuguese, Tamil, 'Cingalese,' Malayalam, and 'Canarese' languages. They gave 5,000 Cingalese New Testaments to a new Auxiliary Bible Society in Ceylon formed in August 1812.[12]

The headquarters of Bible Society of India moved from Nagpur to Bangalore in 1950, under the leadership of General Secretary Premanand Mahanty. The Central Office of the Bible Society of India is located in Bangalore city in the state of Karnataka in South India.[13]

Auxiliaries of the Bible Society of India[14]
Founding
year
Name of the Auxiliary Location District State
1983 Aizawl Auxiliary Aizawl Aizawl District Meghalaya
1845 Allahabad Auxiliary Allahabad Allahabad District Uttar Pradesh
1951 Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary Secunderabad Hyderabad District Telangana
1813 Bombay Auxiliary Mumbai Mumbai District Maharashtra
1811 Calcutta Auxiliary Kolkata Kolkata District West Bengal
1986 Dimapur Auxiliary Dimapur Dimapur District Nagaland
1969 Gujarat Auxiliary Ahmedabad Ahmedabad District Gujarat
1986 Jabalpur Auxiliary Jabalpur Jabalpur District Madhya Pradesh
1945 Karnataka Auxiliary Bangalore Bangalore District Karnataka
1956 Kerala Auxiliary Kottayam Kottayam District Kerala
1953 North West India Auxiliary New Delhi Central Delhi District New Delhi
1983 Odisha Auxiliary Cuttack Cuttack District Odisha
1966 Ranchi Auxiliary Ranchi Ranchi District Jharkhand
1956 Shillong Auxiliary Shillong East Khasi Hills District Meghalaya
1820 Tamil Nadu Auxiliary Chennai Chennai District Tamil Nadu
BSI Departments and Directors

Gallery

Personalities associated with the Bible Society of India.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Neville Barker Cryer, Bibles Across the World, Mowbrays, 1979, p.109. [1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 BSI, Office Bearers
  3. 3.0 3.1 The Sowing Circle, Volume 31, Number 1, January–April 2015
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  6. G. D. V. Prasad, Chiranjivi J. Nirmal, Imaging the Word: A Twenty-First Century Perspective, The Bible Society of India 1811-2011, Bible Society of India, Bangalore, 2000, (revised edition 2011), p.115. [2]
  7. Kenneth Cracknell, Susan J. White, An Introduction to World Methodism, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005, p.150.[3]
  8. Annual Report of the American Bible Society, Volume 149, American Bible Society, 1964, p.144. [4]
  9. The Civil List of Indian Police Service, 1968, p.232
  10. Interact 2012 of the Indiranagar Methodist Church, Bangalore
  11. 11.0 11.1 Mr. B. K. Pramanik and Mr. M. Jesudas have been conferred honorary doctorate by an unrecognised institution which has no standing before the University Grants Commission. Hence, their prefixes have been retained as Mr. See Some Distinguished Alumni and Honorary Degree Recipients of IICM.[5]
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  14. The Bible Society of India, list of Auxiliaries, October 2015