ROBERTSON, Alexander. Dingwall 28.3.1877 — 19??. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of William R. and Margaret Urquhart, educated in Kilmorack, Inverness and Edinburgh. Studies at Aberdeen, M.A. 1898. Worked for United Free Church as missionary in India in 1902-37, concentrating on Dalits. First 20 years in Poona (Pune), then in Nagpur. In retirement minister of Kilmallie, Corpach. Married 1903 Agnes Skene.
In ecclegen.com there is a different account: born Rothesay 1859. Studied at University and Free Church College, Glasgow, ordained priest 1885. Then missionary in Nagpur, retired 1937 and became minister at Kilmallie. Finally retired 1952 and died 22.7.1954. But retirement in 1952 seems late, indeed, for somebody born in 1859! Birth in 1877 seems reasonable.
Publications: The Mahar Folk. A Study of Untouchables in Maharaṣtra. 12+101 p. Religious Life of India Series. L. 1938.
Sources: *Ph. Constable, “A.R., Scottish Social Theology and Low-caste Hindu Reform in Early Twentieth-century Colonial India”. Scottish Historical Review 94, 2015, 164-206.
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