Godavari Delta Mission

European thought into coastal Andhra. Through their schools and colleges, they propagated new social values like widow remarriage and discontinuance of child marriage which were major evils prevailing in Hindu Society. Students from different castes of from Hindu society attended these schools. This was indirectly due to the modern education offered in missionary schools. As a result of the influence of the missionaries there was a decline in the number of child marriages and an increase in the number of widow remarriages. This was reflected in the Statistics of the period.50 GODAVARI DELTA MISSION: Although the Charter Act of 1813 made provisions for the appointment of a Bishop and three Archdeacons, besides liberalising the entry of the missionaries, it took couple of decades for the missionary organisations to mobilise the necessary men and material for the proselytisation work. Only after 1833, substantial progress was seen in the Protestant missionary activities in India. Till 1833 only the London Missionary Society could get permission to enter India. Sir Arthur Cotton, a Military Engineer who toured India in 1833 received requisitions from the European Officers and soldiers stationed at Godavari Delta area to initiate