Several mission societies, including the Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of Tinnevelly and Travancore, which covers most of the southern Tamil Nadu. These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the Church of England. The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India. Missionaries Rev. John Anderson - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Founder - Madras Christian College Elizabeth Baring-Gould Rev. B. Baring-Gould - CMS Missionary Rev. Graham Basanti - women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church Rev. James Kershaw Best - SPG missionary at Christianagaram Paul Olaf Bodding Paul Wilson Brand Miss Kathleen Nora Brockway - Founder of St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai Edith Mary Brown Nathan Brown Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer - SPG missionary Ann Caemmerer - Started the first Girls High School in South India - St. Johns Girls High School, Nazareth - Daughter of Rev. Charles Mead - and Wife of Rev. A.F. Caemmerer Robert Caldwell Eliza Caldwell - Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault William Carey Amy Carmichael Rev. Robert Carver - Methodist Missionary Alexander Crawford - first Presbyterian missionary to India (1823–29) Alexander Duff Rev. James Duthie - LMS Missionary to Travancore Rt. Rev. James Edward Lesslie Newbigin - Ordained in Church of Scotland; affiliated with the United Reformed Church; served in the Church of South India Abraham Friesen & Maria Friesen - Mennonite Brethren Missionary from South Russia in Nalgonda, Hyderabad State. Christian William Gericke - S.P.C.K. Missionar James Glasgow (1805–90) - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841-1864) Anthony Norris Groves Johann Ernst Gründler Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert - German linguist and Basel missionary to India John Christian Frederick Heyer Sam Higginbottom John Nelson Hyde Lyman Jewett E. Stanley Jones Rev. James F. Kearns - Missionary at Puthiamputhur Samuel H. Kellogg - translator of Hindi Bible Alexander Kerr - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841) Rev. Draviam Koilpillai - Headmaster of St. Aidan's College at Natal (S. Africa), Military Chaplain at Mesapotamia, & a friend of M.K. Gandhi - Missionary at Nazareth Rev. Dr. Eugen Liebendörfer - German physician and Basel missionary to India James Long - Church Missionary Society missionary Joshua