Encounter and interventions : Christian missionaries in colonial north-east India / edited by Sajal Nag, M. Satish Kumar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nag, Sajal, 1958- editor.

Satish-Kumar, M., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--India, Northeastern--History.

Missions.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

India--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

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 (2016); and Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Sub Nationalism in North East India (2002); among others. 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).

Contents:

Introduction / By Sajal Nag

Chapter 1. Christianity and Cultural Changes among the Lotha Nagas / By Adani Ngullie

Chapter 2. Christian Missionaries in the Plains of Barak Valley / By Amol Sinha

Chapter 3. Missionaries as Stimulus Interrogating Political Mobilization in Colonial North-East India / By Binayak Dutta

Chapter 4. The Coming of the Grace of the Christ The Christian Baptist Missionaries and the Construction of Hindu Identity in Assam: c.1840-1900 / By Bipul Chaudhury

Chapter 5. Colonialism and Christian Missions in North-East India / By David Reid Syiemlieh

Chapter 6. Reading the Open Book Missionary Print as Hermeneutical and Material Texts / By David Vumlallian Zou

Chapter 7. Christian Missionaries among the Karbis / By Donald Teron

Chapter 8. Nationalist Discourse, Christianity and Tribal Religion The Tani Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh / By Jagdish Lal Dawar

Chapter 9. Straying beyond Conquest and Emancipation Exploring the Fault Lines of Missionary Education in North-East India / By Hoineilhing Sitlhou

Chapter 10. Health, a Gift of God at Sanatorium and Missionary Activities in Madras Presidency / By B. Eswara Rao

Chapter 11. Coloniser or Anthropologist? Locating the Identity of the Christian Missionary vis-̉-vis the Tea Garden 'Coolie' in Colonial Assam / By Anisha Bordoloi

Chapter 12. Romance of the Wild, the Natural, and the Savage Glimpses of Evangelism in North-East India, 1836-1900 / By M. Satish Kumar

Chapter 13. Welsh Missionaries and the Transformation of Mizo Women / By Lalhmingliani Ralte

Chapter 14. Society, Culture and Conversion The Jesuit Madurai Mission in Tamil Nadu, 1650-1700 ce 1 / By Jangkhomang Guite

Chapter 15. Introduction of New Literature under the Aegis of Christian Missions in Mizoram / By J.V. Hluna

Chapter 16. Evangelization among the Bodos / By Luke Daimary

Chapter 17. Cultural Hegemony, First World War and the German Salvatorians in North-East India (1890-1915 ce) /By Meeta Deka

Chapter 18. Christianity vs Indigeneity Colonial State, Mission and Laipianism in Chin Hills / By Pum Khan Pau

Chapter 19. American Baptists in Colonial Assam The Tale of Oscar Levi Swanson* / By Nabanipa Bhattacharjee

Chapter 20. Early Response to Christianity in Mizoram / By Rohmingmawii

Chapter 21. Tribulations of the Catholic Mission in Mizoram 1925-1946 / By Sangkima

Chapter 22. Colonial State, Christian Missionaries and the Politics of Persuasion in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal / By Santanu Sarkar

Chapter 23. Sociocultural Re-Invention A Study of Christianity in Arunachal Pradesh / By Sarah Hilaly

Chapter 24. An Analysis of the American Baptist Missionary Sources for the Construction of Gender History in North-East India / By Shiela Bora

Chapter 25. Naga Conversions to Christianity in Manipur in the Twentieth Century / By Th. R. Tiba

Chapter 26. Gendered Mission The Zenana Work of the American Baptist Mission in Assam (1836-1950)* / By Tejimala Gurung.

Notes:

"Manohar 2024."

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9781003425601

1003425607

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9781000927108

1000927105

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