Zenana missions

The zenana missions were outreach programmes established in British India with the aim of converting women to Christianity.

From the mid 19th century, they sent female missionaries into the homes of Indian women, including the private areas of houses - known as zenana - that male visitors were not allowed to see.

The zenana missions were made up of female missionaries who could visit Indian women in their own homes with the aim of converting them to Christianity.

[4] By the 1880s, the zenana missions had expanded their ministry, opening schools to provide education for girls, including the principles of the Christian faith.

As a result, the Zenana missions helped break down the male bias against colonial medicine in India to a small extent.

This sixty bed hospital assisted with blood transfusions, child births, and anaemia cases among men, women, children, and people from all over Kashmir, India.