Author: Krishna Mohan BanerjeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian converts from Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Remarks on the Speech of the Earl of Ellenborough in the House of Lords on the Bengal Petition Against Act XXI of 1850 of the Government of India
Author: Krishna Mohan BanerjeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian converts from Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Making of Indian Secularism
Author: N. ChatterjeePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230298087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell SmithA catalogue of a ... collection of upwards of twenty-six thousand ancient and modern tracts and pamphlets, collected and arranged by John Russell Smith. On sale
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Disinherited
Author: Mou BanerjeePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674268032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion "panic" that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire's Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small--Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India's population during the nineteenth century--Bengal's majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the permanent ejection of religious minorities from Indian ideals of nationhood. Mou Banerjee details what happened as Hindus and Muslims grew increasingly suspicious of converts, missionaries, and evangelically minded British authorities. Fearing that converts would subvert resistance to British imperialism, Hindu and Muslim critics used their influence to define the new Christians as a threatening "other" outside the bounds of authentic Indian selfhood. The meaning of conversion was passionately debated in the burgeoning sphere of print media, and individual converts were accused of betrayal and ostracized by their neighbors. Yet, Banerjee argues, the effects of the panic extended far beyond the lives of those who suffered directly. As Christian converts were erased from the Indian political community, that community itself was reconfigured as one consecrated in faith. While India's emerging nationalist narratives would have been impossible in the absence of secular Enlightenment thought, the evolution of cohesive communal identity was also deeply entwined with suspicion toward religious minorities. Recovering the perspectives of Indian Christian converts as well as their detractors, The Disinherited is an eloquent account of religious marginalization that helps to explain the shape of Indian nationalist politics in today's era of Hindu majoritarianism.
Ames Library Pamphlet Collection
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
A collection of monographs related to Indian history and civilization, as well as the British experience in India, from the 18th through the 20th centuries; includes some non-Indic material.
A Reply to the Rev. K. M. Banerjea's remarks on the speech of the Earl of Ellenborough, in the House of Lords ... against Act. XXI. of 1850, of the Government of India. With an appendix containing the speeches of Lord Monteagle and the Earl of Ellenborough. By A Member of the Committee appointed by the Hindu inhabitants of Bengal, Behar and Orissa, for petitioning Parliament against the aforesaid Act
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977407
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description