India`s Christian Heritage

includes index and biblioraphy

Charles Dias The Relevance of St. Francis Xavier in the Formation of Catholicism in South India ___ 17 Mathew Thomas Robert De Nobili and the Madurai Mission... A Critique _____________ 23 George Menachery Lessons for Later Missionaries in India in the Experiences of the Pioneering Pair:ZiegenbalgandPluetschau _______ 29 Thomas Edmunds Ziegenbalg`s Impact on Indian Church History: An Analysis __________ 34 P. Jothipackiam The Constructive Companion of Ziegenbalg - Johannes Ernestus Grundler 1677-1720 38 D. Arthur Jeyakumar Anna Satthianadhan 43 Thomas Edmunds A Pioneer Lutheran Catechist: Muthusamy Naidu ____ 47 D. Arthur Jeyakumar The Government of India`s Attitude Towards Indian National Movement A Case Study: Dr. Ernest Forrester-Paton__________ 51 S. Santha Praburaj Missio Dei Marginalis - The Nilgiris: A Case Study _______ 57 Antonysamy Thomai History of Christianity in Kongunadu_ _____ 64 P. Maria Lazar The Jesuit Presence in and around Nagapatinam from the Sixteenth Century _ 70 K. J. John Ochanthuruthu Contribution of Jesuits to Early Printing in Tamil ______ 78 S. Jebanesan The Orientalism of American Ceylon Mission and the Tamil Literary Revival _ 82 V. M. Gnanapragasam The Relationship of Lutheran and Catholic Missionaries in Tranquebar _ _ _ _ 89 Thomas Anchukandam Catholic - Protestant Relations in Tamil Nadu up to the Twentieth Century - An Overview_______ Joseph Thekkedath The Latin Rite Missions in South India in the First Half of the 19th Century _ _ V. Vincent Kumaradoss/ Elizabeth Susan Alexander Lives and Times of the Protestant Christian Elite in Madras at the turn of the Nineteenth Century _________114 Francis Thonippara Mar Abraham : the Last Persian Metropolitan of the St. Thomas Christians 129 J. Rosario Narchison Towards a Historiography of Martyr Devasahayam_ ________135 J. W. Gladstone Christian Missionary Work and Socio-Religious Movements in Kerala, 1850-1919 145 Alex Mathew The Role of Prathyaksha Reksha Daiva Sabha in the Emancipation of Dalits: with Special Reference to Sri Kumara Gurudevan_____________ 153 P. Anto Florence British Intervention in Jacobite Church _____ 164 D. Arthur Jeyakumar Ecumenism in the Mar Thoma Church: Prospects in India Today ________170 Jose Kalapura Christianity, Colonial Globalization of Culture: An Indian Experience with Special Reference to Malabar Christians _____178 Mar Aprem The Relation of The Church in Kerala and The East Syrian Church from 1787 to 1860 A.D. 199 Charles Dias European Descendants in Kerala: A Discriminated Sect______________205 Varghese Perayil Challenges and Problems of Christianity in Kerala: Preserving the Monuments - A History at Peril _____ _213 George Menachery Aspects of the Idea of "Clean and Unclean" Among the Brahmins, the Jews, and the St. Thomas Christians of Kerala_ _ _ _218 P. Manasseh Some Ancient Trade Routes and the Advent of the Gospel in Andhra _ _ _ _ _229 Amos Ezung Societal Aspects: Their Influence, Challenges and Prospects on Dalit Christianity Pramoda Rao The Nature and Pattern of Christianity Among Dalits in Telangana: A Post - Colonial Reflection 240 Gudrun Lowner Lucy D`souza-Krone: the Theologian with a Brush and Her Feminist Vision_ _25 Jeanette Pinto The Siddis of Karnataka: From Slave to Scheduled Tribe Filipe Neri Ferrao Indian Society and Culture: An Encounter with Christianity___________268 Cosine Jose Costa The Unique Goan Culture an Encounter of Indian Culture with Christianity _273 Gerald K. Misquitta East Indian Chr