Sherring joined the London Missionary Society and worked in the city of
Varanasi, about which he wrote a significant book (The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times).[2]
Works
The Indian Church during the
Great Rebellion: An Authentic Narrative of the Disasters that Befell It, Its Sufferings, and Faithfulness Unto Death of Many of its European and Native Members , London:
James Nisbet & Co., 1859.
Journal of Missionary Tours to
Fyzabad in Oude, and
Singrowlee in the
Mirzapore District, North West Provinces, India, During the Winter of 1861-1862, Mirzapore (India):
Orphan School Press, 1862.
Benares and its Antiquities: A Lecture Delivered ... Before the Benares Debating Club on the 25th July, 1863, Benares [Varanasi]: Medical Hall Press, 1863.
Description of the Buddhist Ruins at Bakariya Kund, Benares, Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1865. Joint author: C. Horne.
The Sacred City of the Hindus: An Account of Benares in Ancient and Modern Times, London:
Trübner & Co., 1868. With an introduction by
Fitzedward Hall.
Hindu Tribes and Castes, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1872–1881. 3 volumes, as follows: Vol. 1: Hindu tribes and castes, as represented in Benares; Vol. 2: Hindu tribes and castes; together with an account of the Mahomedan tribes of the North-West Frontier and of the aboriginal tribes of the Central Provinces; Vol. 3: Hindu tribes and castes; together with three dissertations: on the natural history of Hindu caste; the unity of the Hindu race; and the prospects of Indian caste ; and including a general index of the three volumes.[3]
Hand-book for Visitors to Benares... With Four Plans of the City and Neighbourhood, Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., 3, Dalhousie Square, 1875.[4]
The Hindoo Pilgrims, London: Trübner & Co, 1878.
The History of Protestant Missions in India: From their Commencement in 1706 to 1881, London:
Religious Tract Society, 1884. "New ed., carefully revised and brought down to date, by the Rev. Edward Storrow. With four maps."
The Tribes and Castes of the Madras Presidency: Together with an Account of the Tribes and Castes of Mysore, Niligiri and Travancore ..., New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1975.[5]
Notes
^Dixon, Simon N. (June 2011).
"Coward College (1833-1850)". Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia. Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^Malik, Jamal (2000). Perspectives of mutual encounters in South Asian history, 1760-1860. BRILL.
ISBN978-90-04-11802-7.