The Basel Mission Between Switzerland, Germany and South India : Entangled Histories from Conversion to Commerce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Mukesh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--India.

Missions.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2026.

Summary:

This book traces the intricate entanglements between the Swiss-German world and South India through the history of the Basel Mission Society.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Maps and Figures

Acknowledgements

Part 1. Mission and Its Historiography

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Basel Mission in Nineteenth Century South India

Amal Shahid, Ella Daisy Müller, Mukesh Kumar

Chapter 2. Interconnected and Multifaceted Approaches to Protestant Mission Histories

Felicity Jensz

Part 2. The Basel Mission in India and Europe

Chapter 3. Christianity for Industry and Industry for Christianity: The Basel Mission in Europe and India, c. 1850-1900

Bernhard C. Schär

Chapter 4. A 'Terrain of Exchange': The Kanarese Evangelical Mission in the Interwar Years (1918-1928)

Philippe Bornet

Part 3. The Basel Mission and Caste

Chapter 5. Social Engineering in the Praxis of the Basel Mission

Jaiprakash Raghaviah

Chapter 6. A Photographic Perspective on Recasting the Caste Individuals: An Exploration of the Basel Mission's Industries in Malabar

Chinjumol KR

Part 4. Gender and the Basel Mission

Chapter 7. Translating Matriliny through the Interpretative Structures of Colonial/Missionary Patriarchy

Parinitha Shetty

Chapter 8. "So Much Depends on the Proper Preparation of the Bible Women": The Training Practice of Bible Women of the Basel (Women's) Mission between 1880-1940 in South India

Sandra Langhop

Part 5. The Materialities of the Basel Mission

Chapter 9. The Basel Mission Collection from India: Colonial Entanglements, Missionary Interpretation and Local Agency

Isabella Bozsa

Chapter 10. Material Manifestations: Basel Mission Terracotta Tiles and Factories of Mangalore

Priya Joseph

Afterword: Entangling Histories, Unsettling Legacies

Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim

About the contributors

Index.

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ISBN:

9789400605466

OCLC:

1574376398