The Society of the Divine Word began its mission in India in 1932 at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. There are four Provinces and one Region in India. The INM (India Mumbai Province) consists of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, and INH (India Hyderabad Province) consists of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. The INC (India Central Province) consists of Madya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Delhi, and Orissa, Bihar, and Chattisgargh constitute INE (India Eastern Province). ING (India Guwahati Region consists of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, and Tripura. There are more than 800 SVD missionaries who are serving the Word all over the world. About 400 of these missionaries are doing marvelous missionary work abroad in more than 35 countries. Besides the minor seminaries in different states, we have our formation houses in Indore, Bhopal, Mysore, Chennai, Pune, etc. There are about 600 seminarians in different formation houses.