198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Low-caste restiveness prompted different reactions among European missionaries and high-caste Indian priests, and the socio-economic significance of religious... Read more
Chapter I The Vatican and the East India Company; Chapter II The East India Company; Chapter III Carmelites, Caste, Sex and Conflict in Kerala; Chapter IV Carmelites and Social Conflict in Bombay; Chapter V Capuchins, Boatmen and Irishmen in Madras; Chapter VI French Jesuits and Caste in Tamil Nadu;
Biography
Kenneth Ballhatchet
'Anyone wishing to have an overview of the many controversies that raged between and amongst Roman Catholics in British India need look no further.' - Penelope Carson, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
