ABSTRACT
Every Christian mission has several histories. Depending on the perspective and the research interest of the historian it is the history of the mission in its place of origin or, rather, the histories of missionary encounters in places where the mission society was active. If attention is directed at the society and people whose conversion was the aim of missionary activity, these encounters can be seen as a part of the history of the missionized. In the case of the Tranquebar Mission attempts to write a history of the mission also focused mainly on the European mission society and its missionaries. In addition, since the documents on the history of the Tranquebar Mission are largely in German, South Asian scholars often find it difficult to use them. The hitherto existing division of the history of the Tranquebar Mission in stages of development was primarily based on the perspective of European mission history.
