Christianity in Indian History Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Historiographical Issues and Problems for Indian Christianity Dalit christian History as a Field of Study ................3 2. Narratives of Conversion, Missionaries and Indian Converts we are one Caste, one Disease, and one religion.......25 Christianity in Mizoram : An ethnography ...........46 Change and continuity: An analysis of the Interaction of Khasi traditional religion with christianity ............58 Colonial registers of a Vernacular christianity ................76 Assistants or Leader : The contributions of Early Native Christian Converts in North-East India ...........102 Sinners and confessors: Missionary dialogues in India ...........119 3. Formation of Identity and Discourses From heathen Aboriginals to Christian Tribles .................143 Strategic Interventions for structural Change in the Bettiah christian Community .........159 Accomadation, reconciliation and rebellion in the history of Tamil Catholicism .........185 4. Conflicts and Dialogue The contemplative gaze: Bede grifiths and the Needs of Post-independence Indian Christinity .........207 Globalizing religion, localizing christian mission ...........232 Living religion in Emotional Turbulence ........256