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List of Maps | p. xxii |
List of Illustrations | p. xxiii |
Introduction: Christians, Christianity, and Christendom | p. 1 |
Initial Expansions across the World | p. 2 |
Proliferation and Propagation | p. 4 |
Primal Religions and Christianity | p. 9 |
History and Historiography | p. 16 |
Contextualizing Complexity, I: India's Lands, Peoples, and Social Structures | p. 21 |
Geo-environmental Settings | p. 21 |
Ethno-demographic Settings | p. 27 |
Language Settings | p. 30 |
Kinship Settings: A Classical Stereotype | p. 35 |
Socio-structural Settings: Varnashramadharma | p. 43 |
Village Setting: Primordial Political Entities | p. 50 |
Contextualizing Complexity, II: India's Dominant Religious Traditions: Sanatana-Dharma and Dar-ul-Islam | p. 57 |
Dharma/Karma | p. 57 |
Al Hind and Dar-ul-Islam | p. 72 |
Thomas Christians and the Thomas Tradition | p. 91 |
The Thomas Tradition | p. 92 |
The Acts of Thomas | p. 93 |
The Thomas Parvam and Other Evidence | p. 98 |
The Church of the East | p. 102 |
The Waves of Refugees | p. 107 |
The Refugees from Dar-al-Islam | p. 111 |
Conclusion | p. 114 |
Pfarangi Catholic Christians and Padroado Christendom | p. 116 |
The Missionaries of Medieval Europe | p. 116 |
The Pfarangi Fleets of Portugal | p. 119 |
The Padroado Real of Goa | p. 127 |
The Imposition of Catholic Padroado Christendom | p. 130 |
The Jesuit Missions in the Mufassal | p. 137 |
Conclusion | p. 140 |
Evangelical Christians as Missionary Dubashis: Conduits of Cross-Cultural Communication | p. 142 |
The Impetus of Missionary Pietism | p. 144 |
The Dubashi Pandits of Tranquebar: Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg and his Tamil Associates | p. 146 |
The Dubashi Missionaries of Madras: Benjamin Schultz, Johann Philip Fabricius, and Telugu | p. 151 |
The Raja-Guru and Sishiyas of Thanjavur: Christian Friedrich Schwartz and his Disciples | p. 152 |
Conclusion | p. 165 |
India's Raj and Political Logic: The Unification of India, a Southern Perspective | p. 169 |
Metaphors and Paradigms | p. 170 |
Pre-modern Systems of Power | p. 173 |
Baniya Company and Kompanee Bahadur | p. 177 |
Dynamics of Imperial Logic | p. 190 |
Stages of Imperial Expansion | p. 194 |
India's Raj and Imperial Paramountcy | p. 200 |
Conclusion | p. 204 |
Avarna Christians and Conversion Movements | p. 206 |
Avarna Movements in the South | p. 207 |
Conversion Movements Further North | p. 230 |
Conclusion | p. 240 |
Missionaries, Colonialism, and Ecclesiastical Dominion | p. 243 |
Travancore: Anglican Attempts to Dominate Thomas Christians | p. 244 |
Tirunelveli: The 'Rhenius Affair' and Missionary Colonialism | p. 249 |
'Tanjore Christians', Anglican Missionaries, and Caste | p. 257 |
Colonial Domination and Dual Identity | p. 261 |
Conclusion | p. 266 |
Indian Christians and 'Hindu Raj' | p. 268 |
Christian Resistance to the Raj | p. 269 |
'Hindu' Resistance to New Christians | p. 274 |
Hindu-Christian Disputes and Encounters | p. 277 |
Official Responses to Religious Controversy | p. 280 |
'Hindu' Establishment and the State | p. 284 |
Struggles over Defining 'Public' Space | p. 288 |
Conclusion | p. 300 |
Elite Education and Missionaries | p. 301 |
'Oriental' Learning and Modern Education | p. 302 |
Indigenous Demands for Modern Education in English | p. 307 |
Early Official Efforts to Spread Education | p. 314 |
Pressures for Modern Education in English | p. 320 |
Mahajans vs. Missionary Educators | p. 327 |
Ascendancy of English in Upper-Class Education | p. 333 |
Missionary Compromise and Elite Co-option | p. 336 |
Conclusion | p. 341 |
Catholic Renewal and Resurgence | p. 344 |
Catholic India in Decline and Disarray | p. 345 |
The Padroado-Propaganda Struggle, or 'Goa Schism' | p. 346 |
The Consolidation of Catholic Christianity in India | p. 350 |
Conflicts with Thomas Christians | p. 358 |
Conclusion | p. 375 |
'Trophies of Grace' and their Public Influence | p. 380 |
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati: The Mahatma of Mukti | p. 382 |
Other Sample 'Trophies of Grace' | p. 410 |
Conclusion | p. 416 |
Adivasi Movements in the North-East | p. 419 |
Naga Christian Movements: A Paradigm of Metamorphosis | p. 422 |
Adivasi Movements of Meghalaya and Mizoland | p. 445 |
Conclusion | p. 451 |
Conclusion and Epilogue | p. 454 |
Critical and Comprehensive Concerns | p. 454 |
Epilogue | p. 464 |
Bibliography | p. 485 |
Glossary | p. 517 |
Index | p. 535 |
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