Though the society was founded in the 18th Century, it is only in 1903 that the Brothers came to India. Today they work in over a 100 educational, social and cultural establishments throughout the country.
The activities of the Brothers of St. Gabriel in India are as multifarious as the needs of the country. They can be found in schools, technical institutes and colleges of higher learning, in the special education and rehabilitation of the blind and deaf, in the care of the aged, disabled and orphaned, in youth organizations, in the urban slums and remote tribal villages, and in movements for civil rights and communal amity.