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aptism, within weeks he had to modify Parham’s doctrine on the utility of
tongues. However, he retained the doctrine of tongues as the definite sign of Holy
Spirit baptism.
Among all the Indian revivals, this is the only revival that is directly connected to
the Azusa Street revival, and it was one of the latest of all the revivals discussed
above. However, the most significant fact is that Calcutta Revival, initiated by the
Garrs, was primarily a revival among foreign missionaries, and the number of
participants in the revival was comparatively small, and had little impact on the
Indians, unlike most other revivals.
2.3.4. Indian Pentecostalism and Western Pentecostal
Missionaries
As discussed above, indigenous revivals with Pentecostal experiences took place
in various parts of India even before the western missionaries came to India with
the Pentecostal message. This does not mean that North American Pentecostal
missionaries played no part in the making of the Indian Pentecostal Movement.
However, as A.C. George comments, the Azusa Street missionaries ‘became
instrumental in sparking the Pentecostal flame’ in certain parts of India, and they
played a particularly significant role in the growth and development of Pentecostal
churches in south India. 169 On the other hand, western missionaries could not have
achieved much without the assistance of local Pentecostal workers. Both in the
southern and northern parts of India, at least in the initial period of their mission,
169 George, ‘Pentecostal Beginnings in India,’ 42
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