The Long Walk of the Gospel in India
A plain map of who carried the Christian message into India, when they came, and what they left behind — told from the histories themselves, in our own words.
The societies
Protestant — Lutheran (Pietist)
Danish-Halle / Tranquebar
Royal Danish-Halle Mission (Tranquebar Mission) · entered India 1706
Protestant — Anglican
SPCK
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Protestant — Anglican
SPG
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Protestant — Baptist
BMS
Baptist Missionary Society (Particular Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen) · entered India 1793
Protestant — Congregationalist
LMS
London Missionary Society
Protestant — Anglican (evangelical)
CMS
Church Missionary Society
Protestant — Presbyterian
Church of Scotland / Free Church
Church of Scotland Mission (later Free Church of Scotland) · entered India 1830
Protestant — Anglican (women's mission)
CEZMS
Church of England Zenana Missionary Society
Independent / interdenominational Christian
Dohnavur
Dohnavur Fellowship · entered India 1927
Protestant — Baptist
ABFMS / ABMU
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
The people
1682–1719
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Royal Danish-Halle Mission (Tranquebar)
1726–1798
Christian Friedrich Schwartz
Royal Danish-Halle Mission / SPCK
1761–1834
William Carey
Baptist Missionary Society
1768–1837
Joshua Marshman
Baptist Missionary Society
1769–1823
William Ward
Baptist Missionary Society
1781–1812
Henry Martyn
East India Company chaplaincy (with CMS ties)
1806–1878
Alexander Duff
Church of Scotland / Free Church of Scotland
1817–1848
Henry Watson Fox
Church Missionary Society
1867–1951
Amy Carmichael
CEZMS, then the Dohnavur Fellowship