Indian Christianity

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN
Gateway of India, Bombay
British India British India was set up in 1858. Great Britain took over East India Company lands and also had
indirect control of the remaining states of Baluchistan, Hyderabad, Kashmir, Mysore, Rajputana, and Travancore.
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This opened up a wave of British missionaries to India. Kerala, which now formed three Kingdoms
Thiruvithamcore, Kochi and Malabar also, came under the influence of the British. There was a resident
at the capitals of these states. Along with them came the Missionaries. One of the firsts to be involved
with the Malabar Churches was Claudius Buchanan. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, a Chaplain in Bengal, was
commissioned by Lord Wellesley to visit the Syrian Christians in 1806. In this work he obtained the
cordial assistance of Colonel Macaulay, the first British Resident of Travancore. Church Missionary
Society, at the invitation of Colonel Munro, who had succeeded Colonel Macaulay as Resident of
Travancore, undertook a Mission to the Syrian Church in the years 1816-17. Messrs. Bailey, Baker, Fenn
and Norton were the first missionaries. The object alike of the Resident, the Society, and the
missionaries, was to aid the Syrian Church to reform itself, without in any way interfering with its liberty.
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