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'''Daniel Sanderson''' was a Wesleyan Missionary, who served in [[India]], in the Wesleyan Canarese Mission, at the [[Bengaluru Pete|Bangalore Petah]], [[Mysore]], Tumkur and [[Gubbi]], between 1842–1867.<ref name="Karttunen">{{cite book |last1=Karttunen |first1=Klaus |title=Persons of Indian Studies |date=2018 |url=https://whowaswho-indology.info/9832/sanderson-daniel/ |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="WMN">{{cite journal |last1=Sanderson |first1=Daniel |title=Continental India - Mysore |journal=The Wesleyan Missionary Notices |date=1847 |volume=V |pages=24–26 |accessdate=12 August 2019 |publisher=Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society |location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KCgEAAAAQAAJ&q=Continental+India+Daniel+Sanderson+The+Wesleyan+Missionary+Notices&pg=PA24}}</ref> Sanderson was a [[Linguistics|linguist]] and a [[Kannada]] scholar. He is credited with co-authoring the first Kannada-English dictionary, published in 1858 by the Wesleyan Mission Press with the financial support by Sir [[Mark Cubbon (army officer)|Mark Cubbon]].<ref name="WesleyanMissionPress1858">{{cite book|last1=Reeve|first1=William|editor1-last=Sanderson|editor1-first=Daniel|title=A Dictionary, Canarese and english|date=1858|publisher=Wesleyan Mission Press|location=Bangalore|url=https://archive.org/details/adictionarycana00sandgoog|accessdate=18 January 2017}}</ref> He also translated [[Lakshmisa]]'s ''magnum opus,'' the Jaimini Bharata, into English. On return to England, he was appointed as the director of the [[Richmond Theological College]].<ref name="JaiminiBharataSanderson">{{cite book|last1=Sanderson|first1=Daniel|title=The Jaimini Bharata: A Celebrated Canarese Poem, with Translations and Notes|date=1852|publisher=Wesleyan Mission Press|location=Bangalore|url=https://archive.org/details/jaiminibharataa00sandgoog|accessdate=3 March 2017}}</ref><ref name="Vol5">{{cite book |last1=Findlay |first1=George Gillanders |last2=Holdsworth |first2=William West |title=The history of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society |date=1921 |publisher=Epworth Press |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwesley05finduoft/page/n5 |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref><ref name="Anandan">{{cite book |last1=Anandan |first1=A J |title=The Kingdom in a kingdom: English Methodist Mission in Mysore State 1813-1913 |date=2018 |publisher=SAIACS Press |page=53,93 }}</ref><ref name="April1843">{{cite journal |title=India within the Ganges: Survey of Missionary Stations |journal=Missionary Register |date=April 1843 |volume=31 |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5QoAAAAYAAJ&q=rev.+daniel+sanderson+bangalore&pg=PA209 |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref>

==Sarah Sanderson==
[[File:Village Chapel and School Near Bangalore (March 1859, XVL, p.24, Sarah Sanderson, 24 November 1858) - Copy.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Wesleyan Village Chapel and School Near Bangalore by [[Thomas Hodson]] (1859)<ref name=Offering1859>{{cite journal|last1=Sanderson|first1=Sarah|title=Wesleyan Village Chapel and School Near Bangalore - 24 November 1858|journal=Wesleyan Juvenile Offering|date=March 1859|volume=XVL|page=24|url=https://archive.org/details/wesleyanjuvenil07socigoog|accessdate=10 November 2015}}</ref>]]
[[File:The Little Hindoo School Girl (p.81, June 1866, Sarah Sanderson - 22 March 1866, Leeds) - Copy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Little Hindoo School Girl (p.81, June 1866, Sarah Sanderson)<ref name="Offering1866">{{cite journal |last1=Sanderson |first1=Sarah |title=The Little Hindoo School Girl |journal=Wesleyan Juvenile Offering |date=1866 |volume=XXIII |page=81 |url=https://archive.org/details/wesleyanjuvenil10socigoog |accessdate=13 August 2019 |publisher=Wesleyan Mission House |location=London}}</ref>]]

Sarah Sanderson was the wife of Rev. Daniel Sanderson, who writing for the ''Wesleyan Juvenile Offering'' describes life in the [[Bengaluru Pete|Bangalore Pete]] in the 19th Century. Writing on 24 November 1858, Sarah describes the Wesleyan Mission School and Chapel in a Pariah village near the Bangalore Petah. The article also carried a sketch of the same, by [[Thomas Hodson]]. This school had some 30 children, 22 boys and 8 girls. They were taught by John a native catechist. Divine services were held on Sundays in [[Canarese]] at 7:30AM. The congregation consisted of 8-10 men and 25-30 children, and many others listening from outside the door. However, most seemed to attend out of curiosity of seeing the European ladies and men. The church services commenced by ringing the bell. Further, she describes the social scorn and humiliation suffered by the Pariah community, such as not being allowed to even walk in the street of the high caste people, untouchability practiced for the fear of pollution by lower castes. However, the Europeans readily employed servants from the Pariah communities and their children sent to Mission schools, brightening their employment prospects.<ref name=Offering1859 />

Further, Sarah Sanderson, writing on 24 September 1859, describes the pettah as the native town of Bangalore with a population of about 60,000. The petah had nearly 200-300 temples or shrines, whose deities were anointed with oil making them greasy and black, and offered flowers and fruit. The petah now had 2 Christian churches, one was the [[London Missionary Society|London Mission]] Canarese Chapel (now [[Rice Memorial Church, Bangalore|Rice Memorial Church]] on [[Avenue Road, Bangalore|Avenue Road]]) and the other was the Canarese Wesleyan Chapel opened a few months before September 1859. To the left of the Wesleyan Chapel was a low building, which had been altered and white-washed to serve as a school. The chapel did not have pews or a gallery. The floor was covered with bamboo matting, and there were rows of benches with seats of fancy cane-work (or rattan). 8 oil lamps using coconut oil were suspended from the ceiling to be used to lighting in the evenings. The windows which were generally kept open had iron bars to keep out the monkeys. Further, she says that her children liked walking the busy streets of the petah to reach the chapel along with their father, observing its noise, local people, shops and the monkeys. Monkeys were numerous in the Petah, and created nuisance by stealing food and other things from people. Sarah describes some events such as a postman walking up to the pulpit to deliver a letter to the preacher in the middle of his sermon on a Sunday. Another, when the Muslim mourning of '[[Mourning of Muharram|Moharrum]]' was being observed when she attended church one evening. The people used to walk in and out of the chapel as they pleased. All so different from the quiet atmosphere of any Wesleyan Chapel in England.<ref name=Offering1860>{{cite journal|last1=Sanderson|first1=Sarah|title=Letter from Mrs. Sanderson: Bangalore, 24 September 1859|journal=Wesleyan Juvenile Offering|date=January 1860|volume=XVI|pages=2–5|url=https://archive.org/details/wesleyanjuvenil02socigoog|accessdate=10 November 2015|publisher=Wesleyan Mission House|location=London}}</ref>

==Canarese Selections==
[[File:Jaimini Bharata, Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore, 1852.jpg|thumb|200px|Jaimini Bharata, Wesleyan Mission Press, Bangalore, 1852]]
Daniel wrote the ''Katha sangraha or Canarese Selections: Prose'' which was published by the Wesleyan Mission Press in 1863. The work consists of 6 parts
* Part I: Stories from the Panchatantra and various other sources
* Part II: Extracts from the Shiva Purana
* Part III: Extracts from the Maha Bharata
* Part IV: Extracts from the Ramayana
* Part V: The Ten incarnations of Vishnu
* Part VI:
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==Notable works==
* ''A dictionary, Canarese and English'' (1858)<ref name="WesleyanMissionPress1858" />
* ''The Jaimini Bharata: A Celebrated Canarese Poem, with Translations and Notes'' (1852)<ref name="JaiminiBharataSanderson" />
* ''Dialogues in Canarese'' (1858)<ref name="RHodson">{{cite book |last1=Shrinivasiah |first1=Munshi |last2=Hodson |first2=Richard G |editor1-last=Sanderson |editor1-first=Daniel |title=Dialogues in Canarese |date=1865 |publisher=Wesleyan Mission Press |location=Bangalore |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.CiXIV122b/page/n4 |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref>
* ''Katha sangraha or Canarese Selections: Prose'' (1863)<ref name="KSI">{{cite book |last1=Sanderson |first1=Daniel |title=Katha sangraha or Canarese Selections: Prose |date=1863 |publisher=Wesleyan Mission Press |location=Bangalore |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.nsp11/page/n5 |accessdate=12 August 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="RoyalAsiatic">{{cite journal |title=Text Books for the Indian Civil Service |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland |date=1870 |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPkAAAAAYAAJ&q=rev.+daniel+sanderson+bangalore&pg=RA1-PA75 |accessdate=12 August 2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Hudson Memorial Church, Bangalore]]
*[[Rice Memorial Church, Bangalore]]
*[[United Mission School]]
*[[William Arthur Memorial Church, Gubbi]]

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