Monday 21 November 2016

Newly Identified Photograph of Earliest Adventist Workers in Bangladesh


Recently I came across a picture on a glass slide in the GC archives that almost certainly was taken on the same day as another picture in our archive files of the earliest workers in East Bengal / Bangladesh as those in both pictures are wearing the identical clothes.

Seated L-R: Purna Chandra Dey, Krishna Dhan Poddar, Sadhan Chandra Sarkar (the healed leper), D N Roy, Purna Chandra Gayen. Seated in front I would guess is the family of D N Roy . Standing at the back on the left appears to be P K Poddar. Seated behind the main row appears to be: Sarkar, not sure, Umesh Chandra Sarkar, K S Sarkar, and can't make out.

The people can be identified from the names attached to the following photograph. Note the date supplied is 1907, but is probably Jan 1909 when Watson and Little joined Mookerjee and held a conference of Sabbath keepers and baptised K D Poddar and  S C Sarkar.


and from a copy of the picture in S K Poddar's album with the additional names of those in the middle row:

Middle Row seated L-R: Sarkar, A C Halder, U C Sarkar, P K Poddar, K S Sarkar (partly hidden).