Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Who and What is an Indian Christian?
	1. Godparents and the Mother’s Brother: ‘Spiritual’ Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India
	2. Between Christian and Hindu: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region
	3. Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India?
Part 2: Whose Religion is Indian Christianity?
	4. Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court
	5. Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India
	6. From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology — or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church
	7. Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity
Part 3: Can Christianity be Indian?
	8. Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia
	9. The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu–Christian Conflict
	10. Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, ‘Kshatriya Intellectuals’ and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity’s Indianness
Afterword I
Afterword II
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index