GROWTH OF MODERN EDUCATION UNDER CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN TIRUNELVELI REGION DURING THE 19TH CENTURY - AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Keywords:
Christian Missionary Education, S.P.C.K., S.P.G., C.M.S. Missions, Eliza Caldwell, Missionary Schools, Social and Educational DevelopmentAbstract
Christian missionary societies played a pivotal role in the development of elementaryand women’s education in the Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi regions during the nineteenthcentury. Beginning with Rev. James Hough’s initiatives in the early 1800s under the S.P.C.K., a systematic expansion of educational institutions
References
Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East 1819 – 1820, London, pp. 154 – 159.
150th, Anniversary Souvenir of St. Paul’s Church, Megnapuram, 1847 – 1997, Tirunelveli, 1999, pp. 17 – 18.


