London Missionary Society

Formed in 1795, the London Missionary Society belonged to the burst of new voluntary societies that followed Carey's example. In the far south, in Travancore, its eccentric German agent Ringeltaube worked with a local convert named Vedamanickam — a small, unlikely partnership from which, in time, a wide movement among the region's poorest castes would spring.

Its Travancore beginning was a single seed pressed into hard ground by two unlikely hands — the harvest came long after the sowers were gone.

• Founded in 1795 among the new wave of voluntary mission societies
• Its early worker Ringeltaube laboured in Travancore alongside the local convert Vedamanickam, seeding a movement that later grew large

Sources: frykenberg-christians-missionaries p.68 · frykenberg-christianity-india p.201