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About The Book : It is a historical survey of all the missionary activities that took place in India from the beginning of Christianity until the end of the nineteenth century. Smith begins with the early contact of Jewish traders with the Indians, moving to links between India and the Patriarchates of Antioch and Alexandria and the Nestorian missionary expansion. Smith then gives a full description of the "attempts" of the Roman Catholics, Dutch, and British missionaries in evangelizing India, then presents the "prospects" for American missionaries. Smith's work is resourceful for understanding the American missionary mentality of the nineteenth century. About The Author : George Smith CIE FRGS LLD (1833–1919) was a 19th-century Scottish historian and geographer who spent his working life in India. He was father to a family of eminent figures. He was born in Leith on 28 April 1833 the son of Isabella Anderson, and her husband Adam Smith (1809–1837). His father died while he was a young child. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied at the University of Edinburgh graduating around 1850. In 1855, he moved to Calcutta, in India, to act as the first Principal of the Doveton College, a boys' school in Madras. In 1856, aged 23, he became a Fellow of the University of Calcutta and also began to operate as their Examiner. From 1857, he was editor of the Calcutta Review. From 1860 he was the official Indian correspondent for The Times of London. He is buried with his wives on the western path of Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. The grave lies on the edge of the north-west section.