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" The Rev Theophilus Subrahmanyam. " Lakshmi Krishna Subrahmanyam was educated at Findlay College, Mannargudi and studied medicine in Madras [Chennai]. However, he abandoned his medical studies to become a Sanyasi and lived for a time in a cave in the Vindhya Hills. He was later converted to Christianity and became an ordained minister in the Methodist Church in 1897. He died in 1933. From a set of lantern slides entitled "Our Indian Fellow Workers" compiled by Frank Deaville Walker (1878-1945), editor of the Methodist Missionary Society magazines Foreign Field and its successor, Kingdom Overseas. Many of the photographs Walker used were his own, taken on visits to the MMS mission fields between 1920 and 1937.
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