During the period following the Napoleonic Wars, many of the Protestant missionaries involved in mission-based reform efforts in India used their skills in the fields of medicine, education and engineering to gain converts to their evangelical crusade to reform India along the same lines they envisioned for Britain, including all but one of the following reforms:
a. better working conditions for the poor
b. worldwide abolition of slavery
c. the abolition of “barbaric” practices
d. a vigorous Christian missionary effort
b. worldwide abolition of slavery
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