CMI and the Social Change in South India

Abstract

The Carmalites of Mary Immaculate (CMI) has played a remarkable role in the process of the socio-economic and religious transformation in Kerala during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The CMI priests under the leadership of Fr. Kuriakose Elias Chavara resolved to eradicate the social evils and work for the upliftment of the downtrodden. Fr. Chavara became instrumental in establishing a series of schools and started social services for the upliftment of the poor.