Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920
Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920

Author: Hayden J A Bellenoit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1317315065

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Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.

Converting Women
Converting Women

Author: Eliza F. Kent

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0195165071

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At the height of British colonialism, conversion to Christianity was a path to upward mobility for Indian low-castes and untouchables, especially in the Tamil-speaking south of India. Kent examines these conversions, focusing especially on the experience of women converts and the ways in which conversion transformed gender roles and expectations.