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84not only much cheaper than the t~aditionalsacrifices, butalso more effective, this was interpreted to mean that thereligious powers of the missionary doctors were greater thanthose of the priests.Jyotirmoy Roy says:Christianity as it has been preached by the European andA~erican missionaries, has succeeded in modernizing thetribal people of Manipur. Indeed it has unlocked andopened up the closed doors of those primitive villagesto the I ight of the modern world. In promoting themodern education, reforming the social ills, and curingdiseases, the helping hand of the philanthropic missionshave always been there. Christianity has not onlybrought these hill men from darkness in to light butalso has earned for them prestige and regard from otherswhich they never had before.6On Culture and ReligionChristianity came to the Kukis as a dynamic force inthe face of strong opposition from the village chiefs andpriests.However, despite this strong opposition, the politicaland social conditions of the tribes in general, andspecifically of the Kukis, favored the Gospel. Therefore,the Gospe 1 did not take a long time to brea k through to thepeople and their culture. When the Christian faith firstbegan to grow among the Kukis the village chiefs and thepriests persecuted Christians who lived in their local villages.But intervention coming from both the government andthe missionaries restrained them from further persecution.6Jyotirmoy Roy, History of Manipur (Calcutta: LoyalArt Press, 1973), p. 200.