ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how a considerable number of Western missionaries who were essentially known for their ‘civilizing mission’ became strong supporters of the decolonization movement in the first half of the twentieth century. It explains the ways in which these missionary satyagrahis unrelentingly struggled to create anti-British narratives by relating themselves with the growing India nationalism advocated by the Congress, spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi had admitted that he was completely loyal to the British Empire and even sang ‘God save the King’ at one point in time. Missionaries themselves had begun to realize that the British dominance in India tended to produce antagonism, intolerance, arrogance, distrust and persecution between nations, cultures and beliefs. The nonviolent nationalism advocated by Gandhi enticed a great deal of responsive attention of both Indian Christians and missionaries.
