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About The Book: The Mass Movement of India has been one of the most significant developments in the worldwide expansion of Christianity over the last half-century. The movement is concerned with the untouchables, who are excluded from the caste social organization and live under extreme poverty and squalor. Through the Mass Movement, the economic, social, and educational level of these depressed people has been lifted, and many villages have been transformed. The movement has also led to the conversion of thousands of caste people to Christianity. However, the undermanned state of Christian forces has led to lapses in religious instruction, which is recognized by the leaders of the movement and missionary societies. To conserve and strengthen the movement, a comprehensive survey and evaluation are being made. The booklet "Christ in the Indian Villages," authored by Bishop Whitehead and Bishop Azariah, presents a concise and dynamic treatise on the reality and power of the Christian Gospel in the context of the Mass Movement. About The Author: Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (1874–1945) (also transliterated as Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah) was an Indian evangelist and the first Indian bishop in the churches of the Anglican Communion, serving as the first bishop of the diocese of Dornakal. A pioneer of Christian ecumenism in India, Azariah had a complex relationship with Mahatma Gandhi, who at least once called him postcolonial Indians' "Enemy Number One." With Bishop Henry Whitehead, Bishop Vedanayagam Azariah wrote Christ in the Indian Villages (1930). The previous year, he published two articles in the "International Review of Missions". In 1936 V.S. Azariah published India and the Christian Movement and South India Union: an Examination of the Scheme from the Anglican Point of View as well as The Church and Evangelism: Being Studies on the Evangelization of India Based on Early Church History. Henry Whitehead (1825–1896) was a Church of England priest and the assistant curate of St Luke's Church in Soho, London, during the 1854 cholera outbreak. Whitehead served in several other London parishes before moving to Brampton, now in Cumbria, in 1874, where he was appointed the local vicar. He was instrumental in instigating a movement to build a new church in Brampton, which culminated in Phillip Webb's St. Martin's Church, the only church design of Webb's ever built and now a Grade I listed building. Whitehead moved on to Newlands in Cumberland in 1884, finally becoming vicar of Lanercost for five years until his death.