Christians and public life in colonial South India, 1863-1937 : contending with marginality / / Chandra Mallampalli.

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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 305 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
  • Rights of converts within British and Princely India, 1870-1895
  • Inheritance law and the 'native Christian' community, 1863-1917
  • Marital law and constructions of Hindu and Christian identity (1870-1920)
  • PART II. CONCEIVING A POLITICAL COMMUNITY
  • The spiritual vs. the political : global religion and Indian politics, 1917-1933
  • The protestant disavowal of Christian communalism, 1910-1933
  • The indigenization of Catholic action, 1921-1937
  • PART III. CASTE AND COMMUNAL IDENTITY
  • Religion, caste and political rhetoric, 1925-1937
  • At the margins of marginality : Dalit Christians, 1917-1937
  • Conclusion.