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{{short description|American missionary}}
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'''David Oliver Allen''' (1800–1863) was an American missionary to India and an author.

==Life==
Allen was born in [[Barre, Massachusetts]] to Moses and Mahitable Allen.<ref name=cixi>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2pjAAAAcAAJ&q=David+Oliver+Allen&pg=PA167|title=Memoirs of American Missionaries. With an introductory essay by ... Gavin Struthers. And a dissertation on the consolations of a missionary by the Rev. Levi Parsons|date=11 August 1834|publisher=J. Reid & Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> His father relocated the family to [[Princeton, Massachusetts]] while David Allen was an infant.<ref name=cixi /> He initially began collegiate studies at [[Williams College]], but moved to [[Amherst College]] upon that institution's opening.<ref name=cixi /> He graduated from Amherst College in 1823 and spent a year teaching in [[Groton, Massachusetts]].<ref name=nie1 /> In 1824 he began study at [[Andover Theological Seminary]] and completed their course in 1827.<ref name=cixi /><ref name=nie1 /> He decided upon [[missionary]] work his final year, and was [[Ordination|ordinated]] on May 21.<ref name=cixi /> Seven days later he was married to Myra Wood.<ref name=cixi /> Allen was called to [[Bombay, India|Bombay]], India as a missionary before he graduated as the situation there was deemed an emergency.<ref name=cixi /><ref name=nie1 /> He arrived in Bombay on November 27, 1827.<ref name=cixi /> His wife accompanied him, but she died on February 5, 1831.<ref name=cixi /> In 1844 he took charge of the Bombay printing establishment. He wrote tracts in "Mahratta," ([[Marathi language]]) and supervised a new [[Bible translations into Marathi|translation of the Bible into that language]]. Weakened by the Indian climate, he returned to America in 1853.<ref name=nie1>{{NIE|wstitle=Allen, David Oliver|volume=1}}</ref>

His ''History of India'' was published at [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] in 1856.<ref name="nie1" />
The full title of this book is ''"India Ancient and Modern. Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and Religious; with a particular account of the state and prospects of Christianity."''

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