Imperial fault lines : Christianity and colonial power in India, 1818-1940 / Jeffrey Cox.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cox, Jeffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Missions--India--Punjab--History.
• Missions.
• History.
• Punjab (India)--Church history.
• Missions--Pakistan--Punjab--History.
• Punjab (Pakistan)--Church history.
• Pakistan--Punjab.
• India--Punjab.

Physical Description:

ix, 357 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

This book tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians, as British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab- a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early 19th century.

Contents:

• 1. Master Narratives of Religion and Empire 1
• Imperial History and the Presumption of Marginality 7
• The Saidian Master Narrative 9
• The Providentialist Master Narrative 11
• Imperialism as a Religious Problem 13
• Part I The Ecclesiastical Invasion of Punjab, 1818-1890
• 2. The Empire of Christ and the Empire of Britain 23
• Geo-religious Triumphalism 26
• Non-European Pioneers and Military Rebellion 28
• The Punjab School and the Rhetoric of Providence 31
• Early Ordination 38
• Dependency as an Imperial Problem 40
• The Diocese of Lahore, or the Native Church Council? 43
• Delhi
• A New Alexandria 46
• Competing Narratives of Conquest and Anti-conquest 48
• 3. Visible Institutions, Invisible Influence 52
• Proclamation as Divine Imperative 55
• Defamation and Its Limits 61
• Fulfillment and Indian Religious Reform 64
• Multiracial Institutions 68
• A School as a "Witness in Itself" 70
• Family and Profession 76
• Part II Nonwhite, Nonmale, and Untouchable: Contradictions of the Mission Presence during the High Imperial Period, 1870-1930
• 4. An Indian Church for the Indian People 87
• Sympathy and Its Imperial Limits 88
• Mixed Motives and Spiritual Status 92
• Race 95
• Indian, Foreign, and Hybrid 99
• Bible Women and Catechists 105
• An Indian Christian Culture 108
• 5. Village Christians/Songs of Deliverance 116
• The Crisis of Village Conversion 120
• Indigenous Initiative 125
• Conversion and Dignity 127
• Patterns of Conversion 130
• Village Christianity: Indigenous, Foreign, and Hybrid 134
• Anglican Elitism 136
• Compromise 145
• Piety and Song in Punjabi Christianity 146
• 6. Gender, Medicine, and the Rhetoric of Professional Expertise 153
• Gendered Bureaucracies 155
• Our Indian Sisters 156
• Moral Blindness: The Care of Orphans 163
• Itineration as Entertainment 166
• Independent Foreign Women 167
• Religion and Healing 171
• Professional Women 175
• Secular Imperialist Medicine 179
• Professionalism and Racial Stratification 181
• Independent Indian Women 186
• 7. The Many Faces of Christian Education 189
• Non-Christian Demand for Mission Education 190
• Christian Education for Non-Christians 194
• Non-Christians as Mission Agents 196
• Indian Christians and the Dilemmas of Social Class 201
• Science and Religion 206
• Non-Christian Competition 208
• Manly Imperialist Christian Education 209
• Liberal Feminist Christian Education 211
• Romantic Literature and Religious Ethos 212
• Part III Confronting Imperialism/Decolonizing the Churches, 1900-1940
• 8. Embracing India: Missionaries and Indian Christians Confront Imperial Fault Lines 221
• Moving Out 223
• Impersonation 224
• The Christian Fakir 226
• Going Native 233
• Social Salvation and Imperial Power 239
• Another Gospel 242
• Christ in the Indian National Congress 246
• 9. Christianity and the National Movement 250
• War and Its Aftermath 253
• Canal Colonies 259
• Celebrities 264
• Communal Electorates and Christian Identity 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-349) and index.

ISBN:

0804743185

OCLC:

48517116