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Charles Stewart Thompson (17 August 1851 – 19 May 1900) was the first medical missionary in Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana, the Bhils region of Central India. His schools, famine relief centers, and medical service transformed care in the region. Born and raised in Easington in County Durham, England, Thompson attended the College of Islington for brief medical training and was later accepted as a missionary by the Church Mission Society. He was deployed to Kherwara, India, where he spent nearly 20 years living and working, ultimately dedicating his life to the plight of the Bhils.

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  • Charles Stewart Thompson (en)
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  • Charles Stewart Thompson (17 August 1851 – 19 May 1900) was the first medical missionary in Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana, the Bhils region of Central India. His schools, famine relief centers, and medical service transformed care in the region. Born and raised in Easington in County Durham, England, Thompson attended the College of Islington for brief medical training and was later accepted as a missionary by the Church Mission Society. He was deployed to Kherwara, India, where he spent nearly 20 years living and working, ultimately dedicating his life to the plight of the Bhils. (en)
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  • Charles Stewart Thompson (en)
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  • Kherwara, India (en)
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  • Easington, Durham, England (en)
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  • Thompson in The Church Missionary Gleamer, Vol. 27 (en)
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  • College of Islington (en)
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  • Introducing Christianity to the Bhils, medical missionary work, establishing schools and dispensaries, famine relief (en)
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  • Doctor, medical missionary, reverend (en)
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  • "Long before we got anywhere near them the children ran off to their homes as fast as their legs could carry them. Men and women, peering round corners, or over the enclosures surrounding their houses, might be seen watching us in all directions" (en)
  • "Wherever one goes, the starving, dying people, with an intense craving for food, are pleading hard for it with tears. Oh, this is a bitter time!" (en)
  • "They have now a wholesome dread of the knife. The consequence is that, although there are hundreds of sufferers lying in the pals, it is a very rare thing indeed to see a Bhil man, woman, or child near the dispensary. Of course they looked with suspicion upon me" (en)
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  • Charles Stewart Thompson (17 August 1851 – 19 May 1900) was the first medical missionary in Kherwara Chhaoni in Rajputana, the Bhils region of Central India. His schools, famine relief centers, and medical service transformed care in the region. Born and raised in Easington in County Durham, England, Thompson attended the College of Islington for brief medical training and was later accepted as a missionary by the Church Mission Society. He was deployed to Kherwara, India, where he spent nearly 20 years living and working, ultimately dedicating his life to the plight of the Bhils. As a doctor, teacher, reverend and philanthropist, Thompson worked to treat cholera, leprosy, the Bubonic plague, ophthalmia, malaria, rheumatism and fever. During his medical missionary career, Thompson laid the foundation for later medical missions in the Bhil region by establishing primary schools, dispensaries, relief centers and orphanages, pioneering Christianity to the Bhils, and training several Bhils in medicine. Besides his medical work, Thompson was also interested in diminishing the communication gap between the Bhils and the Europeans, which eventually led him to publish the first grammar and vocabulary book in the Bhili language as well as a prayer book. (en)
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