Tools of Christian Missionaries
Tools of Christian Missionaries: Influence of Education and Medical health among the Zo people in Chin Hills [i] Dr Pum Khan Pau Christian missionaries were some of the most influential actors which brought significant changes in the host environment. They came as stranger, but psychologically and professionally prepared, to an unfamiliar environment with the objective to bring transition in the host society. The primary tools often used by them to facilitate transition were the introduction of education and medical health. It is from this perspective that the present paper seeks to study the influences of education and medical health in order to understand the whole gamut of Christian conversion among the Zo people in colonial Chin Hills. The earliest Christian missionaries in Chin Hills, Rev. Arthur E. Carson and his wife Laura Hardin Carson from the American Baptist Mission, reached Haka on 15 March, 1899. They first laid the foundation of Christianity in Chin hills. Though