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- The Lost Dictionary - A history of the Chin people, the Newland family and the American Baptist Chin Mission
The Lost Dictionary - A history of the Chin people, the Newland family and the American Baptist Chin Mission
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Once upon a time there was a dictionary, complete with anthropological footnotes, which recorded the culture and language of the Chin people, but the dictionary was ignored by the incoming Baptist missionaries and forgotten for a century, perhaps because its creator refused to condemn the Chins' animist religion.
This is the story of Surgeon-Major Arthur Newland, the pioneering photo-journalist who gave the Chins their written language, of his Chin wife Sina and their son Major Sam Newland D.S.O., hero of the wartime "Z Force Johnnies", of the missionaries who converted the Chins to Christianity and of the Chin people themselves, a complex feudal society living in one of the most inaccessible regions on Earth.
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