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lind, and training departments in teaching, nursing, weaving, tailoring, bread and
butter making, tinning, laundering, masonry, carpentry and farming.’ 156
While discussing Mukti’s place in global Pentecostalism, Anderson identifies four
far-reaching consequences. 157 Firstly, Mukti shows that the revival in India
preceded and inspired that of Azusa Street, and that it was a ‘full-grown’
Pentecostal revival. Secondly, women played a more important role in the Indian
revival than in the American one. Thirdly, Mukti revealed an openness to other
Christians, and thus we see ‘an ecumenicity and inclusiveness’, in sharp contrast
to the rigid exclusivism of the Pentecostal Movement in general. Finally, Mukti
became the source of inspiration for Latin American Pentecostalism.
2.3.3.4. North East India
Another revival broke out among the tribal communities in the Khasi and Jaintia
Hills 158 in north east India in the early 1900s. It began with evening prayer
meetings at Mawphlang in the Khasi Hills of central Assam to seek an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit throughout Khasi and the entire world. In 1904, these prayer
meetings became more fervent. However, the real outpouring of the Spirit with
visible manifestations took place in March 1905 during the Presbytery meeting at
Pariong in the west Khasi hills, and then spread to Mizoram. 159 Intense conviction
of sin, loud singing with outstretched arms and dancing, exorcism, visions,
156
Allan Anderson, ‘Pandita Ramabai, the Mukti Revival and Global Pentecostalism,’
Transformation 23, no.1 (2006): 38.
157
Anderson, Spreading Fires, 87-89; Anderson, ‘Pandita Ramabai,’ 46-47.
158
Presently in Meghalaya, but formerly a part of Assam.
159
Orr, Evangelical Awakening in South Asia, 112-13.
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