Introduction

Biography

Nicol’s fa­ther was min­is­ter of the Unit­ed Free Church at Loch­ran­za.

Nicol was educated at Glas­gow High School, the Uni­vers­ity of Glas­gow (MA 1891, DLitt 1911, DD 1928), and the Unit­ed Free Church Theo­lo­gic­al Col­lege in Glas­gow.

In 1895, he was or­dained a mis­sion­ary to In­dia. He spent six years at Wil­son Col­lege, Bom­bay (now Mumbai, मुंबई), and in 1901 moved to the Unit­ed Free Church Miss­ion in Poo­na (now Pune, पुणे).

In 1928, he served as Sec­re­ta­ry of the Na­tional Christ­ian Coun­cil of In­dia.

Works

• Indian The­ism from the Ved­ic to the Mu­ham­mad­an Per­iod (Lon­don et ali­bi: Hum­phrey Mil­ford & Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity Press, 1915)
• A Six­teenth Cen­tu­ry In­dian Mys­tic, co-au­thor with W. G. Orr (Lon­don: Lut­ter­worth Press, 1917)
• Psalms Of Ma­ra­tha Saints (Cal­cut­ta, Lon­don, et ali­bi: As­so­ci­ation Press, Hum­phrey Mil­ford & Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity Press, 1919)
• The Re­li­gious Life of In­dia—The Hin­du Re­li­gious Year, co-ed­it­or (Cal­cut­ta, Lon­don, et ali­bi: As­so­ci­ation Press, Hum­phrey Mil­ford & Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity Press, 1921)
• The Mak­ing Of Mod­ern In­dia (Lon­don et ali­bi: Hum­phrey Mil­ford & Ox­ford Uni­vers­ity Press, 1924)
• Tom Dob­son: A Cham­pi­on of the Out­castes (Lon­don: Hodder & Stough­ton, 1924)
• India in the Dark Wood (Lon­don: Ed­in­burgh House Press, 1930)
• Builders of Mo­dern In­dia: Pan­di­ta Ra­m­abai (Cal­cut­ta: As­so­ci­ation Press, 1930)
• The Liv­ing Re­li­gions of the In­di­an Peo­ple (Lon­don: Stu­dent Christ­ian Move­ment Press, 1934)
• The Sadhs (Y.M.C.A Pub­lish­ing House, 1935)
• Is Christ­ian­ity Unique? (Lon­don: Stu­dent Christ­ian Move­ment, 1936)
• Hindu Script­ures, ed­it­or (Lon­don and New York, : J. M. Dent & Sons and E. P. Dut­ton, 1938)
• C. F. An­drews: Friend of In­dia (Lon­don: J. Clarke, 1945)
• Hindu Script­ures: Hymns from the Rig­ve­da, Five Upa­ni­shads, the Bha­ga­vad­gi­ta (Lon­don & New York: Dent & Dut­ton, 1963)