Class, caste and Catholicism in India 1789-1914
By: Kenneth Ballhatchet.
Series: London studies on South Asia ;; 17
Publisher: Curzon
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Richmond, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Catholic Church -- India -- History; Christian sociology -- India; Christian sociology -- Catholic Church; Church and social problems -- Catholic Church
Description: This is a study of the ways in which changing social expectations among Indian Catholics confronted the Roman Church with new questions, as well as giving fresh urgency to the old problem of the persistence of caste among Christians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.