Sonia, Congrats.

MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION DURING THE BRITISH - AN ANALYSIS
Christian missionaries were the most influential actors of education in colonial India.The East India Company took up the programmes of religious propagation and establishment of schools in addition to the main goal of expansion of trade with India.The company accepted in its charter act of 1813,the proposal of the christian missionaries to take up the responsbility of educating Indians and to extend financial assistance. This period of British education marks the beginning of the modern period in Indian education. Some of the first mission schools established were in the Bombay presidency ,Bengal and Punjab.
The native attempt to neutralise missionary effect resulted in the establishment of indigenously managed schools.They also followed the colonial curriculam and shared the protestant views of education lavishly. They started to teach ,christian values are ultimately human values through the new schooling system .They introduced a two-tire pattern of discipline. As a result it functioned in two directions i.e, evangelists reached out to the lower classes in sunday schools, and missionary schools targeted the Indian elites.
In Kerala too the influence of christian missionaries played an important role in institutionalising education .They started a network of primary schools in different parts of Cochin. The spade work done by the christian missionaries in the area of women education cannot be ignored. Convent schools and other girls schools either aided or unaided by the government began to spring up in different parts of the country especially in the christian belts.