Jean-Antoine Dubois (1765 - 1848) was a French Catholic
missionary in
India. Dubois had been baptized on January 10, 1766 in St.Remèze/Ardèche. He was ordained in the
diocese of Viviers in 1792, and sailed for India in the same year under the direction of the Missions étrangères. He was at first attached to the
Pondicherry mission, and worked in the southern districts of the present
Madras Presidency. On the fall of
Seringapatam in 1799, he went to
Mysore to reorganize the Christian community that had been shattered by
Tipu Sultan.Among the benefits which he conferred upon his impoverished flock were the founding of agricultural colonies and the introduction of vaccination as a preventive of
smallpox. But his great work was his record of Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies. Immediately on his arrival in India, he saw that the work of a Christian missionary should be based on a thorough acquaintance with the innermost life and character of the native population.
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