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Even after the post-colonial and post-independence period, Christian mission has been accused and misunderstood as instigating western superior cultural ideology to the people of India and endangering the culture of the land. To a large extend, it can be assumed that the accusation is also factual as most of the Churches fail to resemble itself according to the culture of the Indian people. Christianity has been symbolozed as anti-national and anti-cultural by some Hindu Fundamentalist and these has brought detrimental effect producing hatred and violence towards Christianity in the country. The observation has brought interruption to the progress of Christian mission and the status of Christianity has been challenged to prove its validity to the masses of Indian people. This context finds it crucial to reconstruct Christian mission for successful venture. The process of reconstruction give attention towards the necessity of inculturating Christian Mission according to the Indian cultural norms; not just Indianizing or giving Indian names to western cultural practices. This process of inculturation, thus, would results in the restructuring or reinterpreting Christian practices corresponding to the Indian culture especially with regards to the understanding of conversion. Successful and authentic inculturation process would subside misunderstanding and bring acceptance towards Christian mission which will bring new vision to the Church and its mission work in India.