M. A. Sherring


Matthew Atmore Sherring, usually cited as M.A. Sherring, was a Protestant missionary in British India who was also an Indologist and wrote a number of works related to India. He was educated at Coward College, a dissenting academy in London that trained people for nonconformist ministry.
Sherring joined the London Missionary Society and worked in the city of Varanasi, about which he wrote a significant book.

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