ABSTRACT
The Christian missionaries in India did not spend all their time on sermons and baptism. To a large extent they were also administrators, handling the money which came from the home board, supervising the building of churches and schools, and employing and educating numerous native-born intermediaries between the mission and the congregations. This entire complex pattern of administration has never been thoroughly investigated, even though we here find a fruitful field for comparison with the ‘secular’ British administration and jurisdiction. However tempting it may be, an investigation of that scope lies outside the limits of the present study. Here we can only scratch the surface and concentrate on a few issues of central importance. These issues include the native clergy and the catechists, which will be discussed in this chapter, and the maintaining of church discipline in chapter 5.
