The making of Indian secularism
Subtitle: empire, law and Christianity, 1830-1960
By: Nandini Chatterjee
Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780230220058
Subjects: Higher Education; Christians; Political aspects; Religious education; Religion and state; Legal status, laws; Minorities
Description: "This book examines religion in India under British rule and the immediate postcolonial years, from an unusual angle, placing Indian Christians at the centre of the story. It addresses legal developments regarding religion and its practice during British imperial rule in India, and the political emergence of Indian Christians as a community in this context"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Abbreviations; title: Glossary; title: Introduction; title: Religion and Public Education: the Politics of Secularizing Knowledge; title: Regulating Trust: Law and Policy of Religious Endowments in India; title: Universality in Difference: the Emergence of Christian Personal Law in Colonial India; title: Creating a Public Presence: the Missionary College of St. Stephens, Delhi; title: Education for uplift: Christian Agricultural Colleges in India; title: Authority and Conflict in the Indian Church; title: Rethinking Christianity in India: Shaping the Religion in which they Believed; title: Representing Christians: community interests vs. Christian Citizenship; title: Conclusion The crime of Conversion and other Historical Curiosities; title: Appendix: Christians per 10,000 of Population in India, 1881-1941; title: Bibliography.