Uprising
Subtitle: Colonial State, Christian Missionaries, and Anti-Slavery Movement in North-East India
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780199460892
Subjects: Missions, india; Evangelistic work; Antislavery movements; India, church history
Description: This text focuses on the confrontation between the colonialists and evangelists over the issue of slavery in the north-eastern part of the British empire in India. Written in the form of a narrative, integrating historical analysis, this work brings out the immense historical significance of this conflict as it exemplified not only the contradictions between the colonial state and the missionary institutions but also the impact of modernization on the colonized population.