ABSTRACT
The aggressive forms of British colonialism resulted in the making of American Gandhian satyagrahis who expanded the horizons of redemptive nationalism in their own right. The rising national aspirations of the Indians and the anti-colonial sentiments among the missionary satyagrahis against the overriding British created cracks in the symbiotic relationship between British colonists and missionary agencies. The anti-imperialist American pacifists first came to know Gandhi and his nonviolent struggles when he was in South Africa. Gandhi and Jones had a series of correspondences on the issue of missionary politics, most notably the question of proselytization. Gandhi also made profound influence on Rufus Jones who was the founder of American Friends Service Committee, established in 1917 to assist the victims of the First World War.
