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‘Nowhere was the influence of the missionaries felt more than in relation to the women’s movement.’ Comment in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Social and Cultural Developments

Christian missionaries, active in India from the 1820s, made women's uplift a central plank of their work — and left a disproportionate imprint on the emerging women's movement.

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