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The Danes sent the first protestant mission to India in Tranquebar, an insignificant locality which they possessed in India. Zeigenbalg, the first missionary who reached India in 1706, candidly confessed that his mission had little success. Only a few poor or destitute persons were converted, and they had to be fed and maintained by the mission. Rev. Ringletaube was the first European Missionary came to South Travancore, landed at Mylaudi near Nagercoil, in 1806 April 25 and founded the London Missionary Society. When he came to Tamil Nadu, there was full of problems like social injustice, superstitious beliefs, women slavery, uneducation of women and prohibition of women from wearing upper cloths. He worked hard for ten years and built seven Churches. But he became ill because of his hard work. So he handed over the responsibilities to one of his assistants Vedamanikam of Mylaudi and left for his motherland. Christian missionaries worked more than 200 years for the upliftment of the education of women. Tamil and Kannada were taught in the Christian schools. Tamil literatures like Tirukural, Tiruvasagam were translated by them into English. So the Tamil language grew up. Many caste people studied and worked together in the schools. So brotherhood and equality increased.