The Role of Christian Missionaries in Colonial India: An Exploratory Study
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https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2025(9-I)15Keywords:
Colonial India, British Rule, Christian Missionaries, ContributionsAbstract
During British rule in India, Christian missionaries made essential contributions through their educational institutions, medical facilities, and societal reforms. The analysis explores their educational work by discussing their foundation of learning institutions for socially disadvantaged populations, starting with schools through colleges to universities. These establishments facilitated literacy access to minority groups such as female students alongside lower-class groups. Through their hospitals, missionary efforts implemented contemporary medical systems and developed better medical facilities. The missionary movement conducted active campaigns against Sati practices, female infanticide, and caste discrimination, which later inspired early reform campaign groups. Indian nationalist leaders, together with Hindu reformists, rejected these efforts because they considered missionaries to be agents of Western imperialism. The research relies on qualitative historical methods to evaluate missionary documents, colonial archives, and academic publications. The research presents evidence of missionary legacies in Indian society that requires more investigation on their impact regarding post-colonial education and healthcare institutions and native Indian responses.
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