Bible Society of India
| BSI | |
| Predecessor | The British and Foreign Bible Society in India and Ceylon |
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| Formation | 1 November 1944 |
| Founder | The British and Foreign Bible Society |
| Founded at | Nagpur |
| Type | Bible Society |
| Legal status | Trust |
| Purpose | Literary |
| Headquarters | Bangalore |
| Location | |
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Region
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Indian subcontinent |
| Services | Contribution, Translation, Printing, Distribution |
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Official language
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English |
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Secretary General
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The Rev. M. Mani Chacko, CSI,Ph.D. (London) |
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President
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The Rev. P. N. S. Chandra Bose, GMI,B.D. (Serampore) |
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1st Vice President
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The Right Rev. P. C. Singh,CNI, B.D. (Serampore) |
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2nd Vice President
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Smt. Starla Luke |
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3rd Vice President
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The Rev. Vanlalbela,PCI, B.D. (Serampore) |
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Media: The Rev. G. D. V. Prasad, M. Th. (Serampore) Translations: The Rev. D. Jonadob Nathaniel, Th.D. (SEAGST) Church Relations and Resource Mobilisation: Ms. E. Leelavathi Manasseh Marketing: Mr. P. I. Varghese Production: Mr. Ashith Finance: Mr. Joel Abraham |
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Main organ
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India Bible Society Trust Association (IBSTA) |
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Parent organization
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United Bible Societies |
| Subsidiaries | 17 |
| Affiliations | National Council of Churches in India |
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Budget (2014)
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Rs.113,913,000.00 |
| Slogan | Applying God's word in the world |
| Website | http://www.bsind.org/index.html |
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Formerly called
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The Bible Society of India and Ceylon |
The Bible Society of India is a Christian body that is authorized to translate, produce, distribute and market the Bible and is a member of the United Bible Societies.
The motto of the Society is to translate the word of God in languages, which people can understand, and produce the scriptures (normally in book form) at a price people could afford to buy. The Bible Society works together with many organizations in India to translate the Bible into various languages of India. The Bible is now available in 65 Indian languages, the New Testament in 70 additional languages, and Scripture portions in 48 languages.
On 21 February 1811, a meeting was held "at the college of Fort William for the propriety of instituting a Bible Society, as Auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society established in London", entitled as "The Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society" with the same objectives as those in London." This Auxiliary Bible Society in Serampore, West Bengal first began attempt to coordinate supply Scriptures to existing Christians in Portuguese, Tamil, 'Cingalese,' Malayalam, and 'Canarese' languages. They gave 5,000 Cingalese New Testaments to a new Auxiliary Bible Society in Ceylon formed in August 1812.
The headquarters of Bible Society of India moved from Nagpur to Bangalore in 1950, under the leadership of General Secretary Premanand Mahanty. The Central Office of the Bible Society of India is located in Bangalore city in the state of Karnataka in South India.
The Society depends on original sources material of the scriptures available in Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic and Biblical Greek languages for which the sources include the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the Novum Testamentum Graece.
Since the beginning, the Society worked together with the National Council of Churches in India and the Senate of Serampore College (University) and the first Translations Director, C. Arangaden helped found the Society for Biblical Studies in India (SBSI) which had been fully-ecumenical consisting of Biblical Scholars from the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Charismatic Church Societies.
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