“Indian missionaries, without the European sword or a book of dogma …..
- By : Dr Anirban Ganguly
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“Indian missionaries, without the European sword or a book of dogma in their hands, sallies forth over mountainous crags, over tortuous streams, through deserts and snowy peaks, over long distances, occupying not days but months and years and reached the far-off ends of the world, landed among foreign peoples, learnt their languages and becoming one of them, they spread their own fragrance, their own radiance and captivated their hearts and inspired their lives, moulded their conduct, gave them arts and ideas of arts…Work and unselfishness, raising themselves and then raising others, have characterised the work of the Indian missions extending over centuries and millenniums…”
(Dr Raghuvira, The Vastness of India)
