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Question
Mention any two steps taken by the Christian missionaries to spread the belief of Christianity through language and literature.
Solution
- The missionaries in order to understand and be understood by the Indian people brought out grammars and dictionaries of the Indian languages.
- St. Francis Xavier learned the language of Malabar and brought out a manual of grammar and vocabulary which helped the Jesuits and other missionaries to learn the language of the people of Malabar.
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