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to 1906. There were six hundred boys in the orphanage, run by the Alliance
missionaries, Mr. Mark Fuller and his wife. Confession of sins and cries of
penitence, tongues-speaking and spontaneous prayer meetings, even at midnight,
were some of the significant manifestations of this revival. Although there is a
disagreement in terms of the date, the greatest impact of this revival was that ‘a
wave of evangelism surged’ to the surrounding villages. 149
Unfortunately, no primary records of both these revivals are available.
Furthermore, both of them were led by western missionaries, although not directly
linked to North American Pentecostalism.
2.3.3.3. Central India
The Mukti Revival is the most outstanding among all indigenous revivals in India.
As mentioned earlier, it took place in 1905 at Pandita Ramabai Saraswati’s Mukti
Mission, founded to care for orphans and widows, in Kedgaon, near Poona,
Maharastra. 150 Inspired by the 1904 Welsh Revival, Ramabai commenced special
daily early-morning prayer meetings for revival from the beginning of 1905. The
number of praying girls gradually increased from 70 to 500. From mid-1905,
these girls began to experience manifestations of the Spirit such as tongues,
trembling, shaking, intense confession of sins, ecstasy, falling down, clapping,
shouting of praises, exorcism and other Pentecostal features. The indigenous
origin of this revival is very clear from Ramabai’s words, ‘… why should
everything that does not reach the high standard of English and American
149 Orr, Evangelical Awakening in South Asia, 148.
150 For more details of the revival, see Anderson, Spreading Fires, 77-89.
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