A History of Christianity in India: 1707–1858

by Stephen Neill

• ISBN13: 9780521893329
• ISBN10: 0521893321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book, a sequel to Bishop Neill’s A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to 1707, traces its subject from the death of Aurunzib to the so-called Indian Mutiny. The history of India since 1498 is of a tremendous confrontation of cultures and religions. Since 1757, the chief part in this confrontation has been played by Britain; and the Christian missionary enterprise, especially on its educational side, has had a very important role. This book depicts with admirable fairness all the various forms of Christian faith that have made contact with India. In this volume, the Indian voice in the controversy begins clearly to be heard. Bishop Neill had hoped it would be heard even more clearly in a third volume tracing the story to Independence in 1947 and the formation of the Church of South India in which he himself played so prominent a part. Unfortunately, he died before he could write it.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Editorial Note	xv
Abbreviations	xvi
India and Political Change, 1706--86	1	(27)
The Indian Revolutions	1	(4)
Divided India	5	(6)
The French Initiative	11	(2)
The English Take a Hand	13	(4)
Britain Supreme	17	(5)
Calcutta under Hastings	22	(1)
Parliament Takes a Hand	23	(5)
The Tranquebar Mission	28	(31)
The Period of Ziegenbalg, 1706--1719	28	(12)
The Period of Benjamin Schultze, 1720--40	40	(3)
The Period of Philip Fabricius	43	(2)
The Period of Christian Frederick Schwartz	45	(14)
The Thomas Christians in Decline and Recovery	59	(415)
Roman Catholic Missions
Introduction	71	(2)
The Well-Established Churches	73	(2)
The Malabar Rites	75	(4)
The Mission to Tibet	79	(8)
Other Activities of the Jesuits	87	(3)
The Carnatic Mission	90	(3)
Other Missionary Orders	93	(4)
An Order of Women	97	(1)
Bengal	98	(2)
A Summary	100	(4)
Anglicans and Others
Introduction	104	(1)
Madras and the South	104	(3)
Calcutta	107	(7)
Bombay	114	(1)
Anglicans and Lutherans	115	(3)
Christians of Other Churches	118	(3)
The Suppression of the Jesuits
Papal Action against the Jesuits	121	(3)
The Portuguese and the Jesuits	124	(3)
The Survival of the Jesuits in India	127	(6)
The New Rulers and the Indian Peoples
Cornwallis - a New Beginning	133	(4)
The Extension of British Power in India	137	(3)
A New Type of Ruler	140	(4)
Contacts with the Indian People	144	(2)
Missions: For and Against	146	(5)
The Charter of 1813	151	(5)
Government, Indians and Missions
The Epoch of Reform	156	(8)
The abolition of sati	157	(1)
Sleeman and the thags	158	(2)
Campbell and the meriahs	160	(1)
Slavery	161	(1)
Infanticide	162	(2)
Education	164	(5)
Government and Idols	169	(4)
The Government and Christians in India	173	(2)
The Charter of 1833	175	(2)
Expanding Frontiers	177	(2)
Rulers and Ruled: the Evangelical Influence	179	(7)
Bengal, 1794--1833
The Emergence of the Baptists	186	(1)
William Carey, 1761--93	187	(2)
Unpromising Beginnings	189	(2)
Principles of Missionary Action	191	(10)
Other Services of the Baptists	201	(2)
The Later Years of Serampore	203	(2)
Other Missions and their Missionaries	205	(7)
New Beginnings in the South
The End of the Danish Mission	212	(3)
Movement in the Far South	215	(3)
Growth, Schism, Recovery	218	(4)
An Extension Westwards	222	(5)
Steady Growth and Development	227	(7)
A Heroic Pioneer	234	(2)
The Thomas Christians in Light and Shade
The Romo-Syrians	236	(1)
The Independent Thomas Christians	237	(2)
New Building on Old Foundations	239	(2)
A Mission of Help	241	(6)
A Mission in Dissolution	247	(4)
On the Way to Division	251	(4)
Anglican Development
India and the Anglican Evangelicals	255	(6)
A Bishop for India	261	(5)
Bishops in India, 1823--58	266	(10)
The Recovery of the Roman Catholic Missions
The Age of Depression	276	(2)
Beginnings of Better Things	278	(1)
New Vicars Apostolic	279	(5)
An Interlude	284	(1)
The Brief Multa Praeclare and its Consequences	285	(3)
Developments in Bombay and Goa	288	(6)
The Other Vicariates	294	(8)
Mathurai	294	(4)
Pondicheri	298	(1)
Mysore	298	(1)
Coimbatore	298	(1)
Vishakhapatnam	299	(1)
Hyderabad	300	(1)
Bengal again	300	(2)
Towards the Organisation of a Church	302	(3)
Postscript	305	(2)
Education and the Christian Mission
Missionary Beginnings	307	(3)
Conversion and Conflict	310	(3)
Beyond Bengal	313	(3)
In Central India	316	(3)
The South Follows Suit	319	(4)
Anglicans Join In	323	(4)
Christian Education and the Indian Renaissance	327	(4)
Protestant Expansion in India
Geography and Mission	331	(2)
How Missionaries Set to Work	333	(3)
Varieties of Missionary Experience	336	(23)
Bengal: a village movement	336	(2)
The Gospel among the snows	338	(1)
Where Islam prevailed and prevails	339	(1)
Three types of Christian approach	340	(4)
The problem of conversion	344	(3)
From missionary to Indian pastor	347	(2)
Eccentricity in the service of the mission	349	(2)
Outreach in unknown fields	351	(1)
The Welsh mission in the Khasi hills	352	(2)
The Gossner mission among the Kols	354	(2)
The Blue Mountains and the Gospel	356	(1)
Zeal untempered by prudence	357	(2)
A Survey and an Estimate	359	(5)
Indian Society and the Christian Message
A New Phase in Contacts	364	(1)
Varying Attitudes	365	(1)
The Father of Modern India	366	(4)
After Rammohun Roy	370	(3)
Controversy on a High Level	373	(2)
The Orthodox Reaction	375	(5)
Other Methods	380	(4)
Missionaries and Politics	384	(2)
Towards an Indian Church
The Idea of the Church	386	(1)
The Missionaries	387	(10)
Who they were	387	(2)
How they lived	389	(5)
Varieties of Christian thinking	394	(3)
An Indian Church	397	(6)
The Social Consequences of the Christian Gospel	403	(4)
Conclusion	407	(6)
The Great Uprising
The Clouds Gather	413	(4)
A Christian Conspiracy?	417	(3)
The Outbreak	420	(2)
The Churches during the Uprising	422	(4)
The End of the Uprising	426	(2)
What Followed After	428	(4)
APPENDICES
Chapter 1
1. The Other East-India Companies	432	(1)
2. The Black Hole of Calcutta	433	(1)
Chapter 2
3. Bartholomew Ziegenbalg's Genealogy of the South-Indian Gods	434	(2)
4. Ziegenbalg's Approach to the Hindus	436	(1)
Chapter 4
5. Padroado Bishops and Vicars Apostolic	436	(2)
6. Apostasy of the Reddis	438	(1)
7. Capuchins in Tibet: Literary Works	439	(1)
8. Mission in Nepal	439	(1)
9. Anquetil-Duperron on European Attitudes to Asia	440	(1)
Chapter 5
10. Kiernander's Ministry: Former Roman Catholic Priests who Joined the Church of England	440	(1)
Chapter 6
11. Jesuits in South India	441	(1)
Chapter 7
12. Opium	441	(2)
13. Charles Grant on the State of Society in Bengal	443	(1)
Chapter 8
14. The Abolition of sati	444	(1)
15. Campbell and the Khonds	445	(1)
16. Macaulay's Minute on Education	446	(2)
17. Sir Peregrine Maitland	448	(1)
Chapter 9
18. Manners and Customs of the Hindus by William Ward in Serampore	449	(1)
19. William Ward's Farewell Letters to a Few Friends in Britain and America (1821)	449	(2)
20. A Hindu Writer on Christian Missions	451	(2)
21. William Carey's Pleasing Dream	453	(1)
Chapter 10
22. Charles Rhenius' Principles of Translation	454	(1)
23. The Rhenius Affair	454	(2)
Chapter 11
24. The Papers of Dr W. H. Mill	456	(1)
25. Mar Athanasius, 1825--6	457	(1)
Chapter 12
26. Deacons as Priests	457	(1)
27. Solomon Caesar Malan	458	(1)
Chapter 13
28. Roman Catholic Missions and Orders in India, up to 1858	458	(1)
Chapter 15
29. Later History of the Moravian Mission	459	(1)
30. Pfander and the Muslims	459	(1)
31. Protestant Missions at Work in India up to 1858	460	(8)
Chapter 16
32. Hindu--Christian Dialogue	468	(2)
33. Formation of the Dharma Sabha	470	(1)
Chapter 18
34. The Nature of the Uprising of 1857	470	(1)
35. Extracts from the Queen's Proclamation, made on 1 November 1858	471	(3)
Notes	474	(67)
Select Bibliographies	541	(22)
General	541	(5)
Chapter 1	546	(1)
Chapter 2	547	(1)
Chapter 3	548	(1)
Chapter 4	549	(1)
Chapter 5	550	(2)
Chapter 6	552	(1)
Chapter 7	553	(1)
Chapter 8	554	(1)
Chapter 9	555	(1)
Chapter 10	556
Chapter 11	548	(2)
Chapter 12	550
Chapter 13	549	(8)
Chapter 14	557	(2)
Chapter 15	559	(1)
Chapter 16	559	(1)
Chapter 17	560	(1)
Chapter 18	561	(2)
Index	563