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Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of [[Tinnevelly]] and [[Travancore]], which covers most of southern India [[Kerala]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Church of South India|first1=Tirunelveli Diocese|title=Missionaries|url=http://csitirunelveli.org/profile/history/missionaries/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817225415/https://csitirunelveli.org/profile/history/missionaries/|archive-date=August 17, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Gore|first1=David|title=Faith and Family in South India|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/faithandfamily.htm}}</ref> These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the [[Church of England]].

The following is an incomplete list of '''Protestant missionaries in India'''.

== Missionaries ==
* [[John Anderson (missionary)|John Anderson]] – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Founder – Madras Christian College
* [[Baring Baring-Gould|Elizabeth Baring-Gould]]
* [[Baring Baring-Gould|B. Baring-Gould]] – CMS Missionary
* [[Graham Basanti]] – female missionary at [[Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church]]
* [[Paul Olaf Bodding]] - Norwegian missionary
* [[Paul Brand (physician)|Paul Wilson Brand]] - medical missionary
* [[Edith Mary Brown]] - creator of the [[ Christian Medical College Ludhiana ]]
* [[Nathan Brown (missionary)|Nathan Brown]] - missionary to India and Japan
* [[Robert Caldwell]] - missionary and linguist
* Eliza Caldwell – wife of [[Robert Caldwell]], and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault
* [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] - [[Particular Baptist]] who founded the [[Serampore College]] and the [[Serampore University]]
* [[Amy Carmichael]] - missionary with the [[Church of England Zenana Missionary Society]]
* [[Alexander Duff (missionary)|Alexander Duff]] - [[Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)|Free Church of Scotland]] missionary
* [[Cynthia Farrar]] - one of first unmarried women missionaries. Worked as an educator.
* [[Anthony Norris Groves]] - missionary to India and Baghdad
* [[Hermann Gundert]] – German linguist and Basel missionary to India
* [[Reginald Heber]] – Bishop of Calcutta
* [[John Christian Frederick Heyer]] - missionary to Andhra Pradesh
* [[Sam Higginbottom]] - missionary to Allahabad
* [[Henry Constantine Huxtable]] – SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram
* [[John Nelson Hyde]] - missionary in the Punjab
* [[Lyman Jewett]] - Baptist missionary in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh
* [[E. Stanley Jones]] - Methodist missionary
* [[Samuel H. Kellogg]] – translator of Hindi Bible
* [[Eugen Liebendörfer]] – German physician and Basel missionary to India
* [[James Long (Anglican priest)|James Long]] – [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary
* [[Arthur Margoschis]] – [[Nazareth, Tamil Nadu]] – SPG missionary
* [[Joshua Marshman]] - Baptist missionary in Bengal
* [[Samuel Martin (missionary)|Samuel Martin]] - Presbyterian missionary in the Punjab
* [[Henry Martyn]] – [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary
* [[William Miller (missionary)|William Miller]] – Missionary from Church of Scotland – Madras Christian College
* [[Donald McGavran]] - third generation missionary
* [[Julia Lore McGrew]] - medical missionary of the [[Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church]]
* [[Volbrecht Nagel]] – German missionary to the Malabar coast
* [[Lesslie Newbigin| James Edward Lesslie Newbigin]] – Ordained in [[Church of Scotland]]; affiliated with the [[United Reformed Church]]; served in the [[Church of South India]]
* Robert Turlington Noble – Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam
* [[Peter Percival]] – Wesleyan Methodist Mission
* George Pettitt – [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary
* [[J. Waskom Pickett]] - American Methodist missionary to Lucknow
* [[Jessie Pigott|Jessie Kelp Pigott]] - in Allahabad and Delhi (1887–9)<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last=Bickers |first=Robert |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-49154 |title=Pigott [née Kemp], (Emily) Jessie (1851–1900), missionary |date=2004-09-23 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/49154|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
* [[Hopestill Pillow]] – Zenana Missionary to India
* [[Heinrich Plütschau]] - German Lutheran missionary to Tharangambadi
* [[George Uglow Pope]] - Anglican missionary to Tamil Nadu
* Charles Frederick Reeve - commenced the non-denominational Poona and Indian Village Mission in 1893
* [[C. T. E. Rhenius]] – first [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary
* [[William Tobias Ringeltaube]], (1770-1816) – LMS Missionary to south [[Travancore]] (first Missionary to South Travancore, 1806)
* Bishop Edward Sargent – [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary
* [[Benjamin Schultze]] – translated the Bible into Tamil, the New Testament into Telugu and part of Genesis into Dakkhini
* [[Christian Friedrich Schwarz]] – German S.P.C.K. Missionary
* [[Ida S. Scudder]] - third generation medical missionary, founder of the [[Christian Medical College Vellore]]
* [[Scudder family of missionaries in India| Scudder family]] – family of medical missionaries
* [[Lars Olsen Skrefsrud]] - Norwegian Lutheran missionary
* [[George Spencer (bishop)|George Trevor Spencer]] ([[:s:Spencer, George Trevor (DNB00)|Wikisource]]) – Lord Bishop of Madras
* [[Graham Staines]] - Australian missionary murdered in India
* William Arthur Stanton – [[American Baptist Association|American Baptist]] Missionary in South Indian town of [[Kurnool|Kurnool of Andhra Pradesh]].
* [[John Strachan (bishop of Rangoon)|J.M. Strachan]] – Medical Mission at [[Nazareth, Tamil Nadu]] – SPG missionary – Bishop of Rangoon
* [[Alfred Sturge]] - Baptist missionary
* [[Ralph T. Templin]] - Methodist missionary and activist
* [[H. U. Weitbrecht]] – [[Church Mission Society|Church Missionary Society]] missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament"
* [[William Ward (missionary)|William Ward]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/wmward/index.html|title = Rev. William Ward / Home page}}</ref> - Baptist missionary
* [[Charlotte White]] – first unmarried American woman missionary
* [[Joyce M. Woollard]] - missionary to Bangalore
* [[Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg]] - German Lutheran missionary to Tharangambadi

==See also==
* [[List of Roman Catholic missionaries in India]]
* [[Mission (Christian)]]
* [[Christianity in India]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India'' by Susan Billington Harper

==External links==
* [http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4114.htm Mission India]
* [http://tamilelibrary.org/teli/tschlr.html Literary contributions of select list of Tamil scholars from overseas]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xi-tvrYbYxMC Google Books website, ''A History of Christianity in India: 1707-1858'', by Bishop Stephen Neill]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=b9sHAAAAQAAJ Google Books website, ''The Missionary conference: south India and Ceylon, 1879, Volume 2'']
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/india/madras1897/ Anglican History website, ''Our Oldest Indian Mission: A Brief History of the Vepery (Madras) Mission'', by The Rev. A. WESTCOTT, M.A. (1897)] (online copy)

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