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Het blijft allemaal heel interessant voor korte tijd, maar je moet niet al teveel van hetzelfde achter elkaar krijgen, da's veel te heavy for me ...
Terug dus maar van al die verschillende Joden en moslims door de eeuwen heen naar christenen die daar 'tussenin' zitten all over the world?!

In Karkal, the Samartha family belonged to a small Christian community of the Basel Mission in the midst of a Hindu majority. Stanley was the son of Lucas Jonathan Samartha (1891-1959) and Sahadevi (1901-1982). A few generations before, his Hindu family was converted to Christi-anity. Stanley was the eldest of two brothers and two sisters: Martha Sukumari ('22); Jonathan Christanuja ('25); Hannah Damayanthi ('33) &
Michael Prakash ('41). Sahadevi, Stanley's mother, was born in 1901, in South Kanara District: in Karkal she was an elementary schoolteacher.

Stanley's father, Lucas Jonathan, was born in 1891 at Kalmedi, near Udipi & was raised in a Basel Mission orphanage. Lucas' family name 'Soans' was changed to 'Samartha' during his study at the Basel Evangelical Mission (BEM) Theological Seminary in Mangalore by Christnuja Watsa, This Brahmin convert and prominent Sanskrit professor Watsa, who died in 1925 after 53 years of service to the Seminary, seems to have given names to some of his students according to their ability or character. 'Samartha' is Sanskrit or 'powerful, competent, capable of, able to.'

Lucas named his second son, Jonathan Christanuja, after him. For more than forty years, Stanley's father served the Basel Mission as an evan-gelist and headmaster of an elementary school and later as a minister in several congregations: he died as housefather of the BEM-orphanage.

The Evangelical Missionary Society of the Basel Mission, founded in 1815 in Basel, Switzerland, made a great impact in the South Western part of India. The Basel missionaries were strongly influenced by the German pietistic movement. Originally it was a charismatic revolution against the rigid Lutheran church-practice. While open to the demands of it's time, the Basel Mission resisted modernistic theology. In it's early years this Basel Mission provided missionaries for the Church Missionary Society, because it had no mission field of its own: thus 1834 was a decisive year.