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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777588503321

Autore

Mallampalli Chandra <1965, >

Titolo

Christians and public life in colonial South India, 1863-1937 : contending with marginality / / Chandra Mallampalli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-35024-4

0-203-39087-3

0-415-64663-4

1-134-35025-2

1-280-02560-3

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 305 p

Classificazione

15.75

Disciplina

305.6/7/09548

Soggetti

Christians - India, South

Caste - India, South

India, South Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction -- ; PART I. LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY -- Rights of converts within British and Princely India, 1870-1895 -- Inheritance law and the 'native Christian' community, 1863-1917 -- Marital law and constructions of Hindu and Christian identity (1870-1920) -- ; PART II. CONCEIVING A POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- The spiritual vs. the political : global religion and Indian politics, 1917-1933 -- The protestant disavowal of Christian communalism, 1910-1933 -- The indigenization of Catholic action, 1921-1937 -- ; PART III. CASTE AND COMMUNAL IDENTITY -- Religion, caste and political rhetoric, 1925-1937 -- At the margins of marginality : Dalit Christians, 1917-1937 -- ; Conclusion.