Christians and public life in colonial south India, 1863-1937

By:

Mallampalli, Chandra

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Routledge Curzon 2006Description: 305pISBN:

9780415323215

Subject(s):

Christians-South India

DDC classification:

305.670954 MAL

Summary: This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to find their place within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically. British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's "official knowledge isolated Christians from Indian notions of family. caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.

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This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to
find their place within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically. British rule in India did
not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu
society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian
judiciary's "official knowledge isolated Christians from Indian notions of family.
caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians
adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their
identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds
immediate relevance.

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