The advent of colonialism and its associated developments has been characterized as one of the most defining moments in the history of South Asia. The arrival of Christian missionaries has not only been coeval to colonial rule, but also associated with development in the region. Their encounter, critique, endeavour and intervention have been very critical in shaping South Asian society and culture, even where they did not succeed in converting people. Yet, there is precious little space spared for studying the role and impact of missionary enterprises than the space allotted to colonialism. Isolated individual efforts have focused on Bengal, Madras, Punjab and much remains to be addressed in the context of the unique region of the North East India. In North East India, for example, by the time the British left, a majority of the tribals had abandoned their own faith and adopted Christianity. It was a socio-cultural revolution.
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Yet, this aspect has remained outside the scope of history books. Whatever reading material is available is pro-Christian, mainly because they are either sponsored by the church authorities or written by ecclesiastical scholars.
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Product details

ISBN
9789391928926
Published
2023-10-18
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Height
240 mm
Width
160 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
646

Biographical note

Sajal Nag is currently a Senior Professor and Head, Department of History and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Assam Univer­sity, Silchar. He is the author of The Beleaguered Nation: Making and Unmaking of the Assamese Nationality M. Satish Kumar is in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Paleo­ecology, in Queens University, Belfast Northern Ireland. His publications include Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India (co-edited with Saraswati Raju and Stuart Corbridge), New Delhi.