TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mallampalli,Chandra
TI  - Christians and public life in colonial South India, 1863-1937 : contending with marginality 
SN  - 9780415646635
U1  - 305.6709548 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London 
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Christians
KW  - India, South
KW  - Caste
KW  - Ethnic relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index; Introduction -- pt. 1. Legal constructions of religious identity. Rights of converts within British and Princely India, 1870-1895 -- Inheritance law and the 'native Christian' community, 1863-1917 -- Marital law and constructions of Hindu and Christian identity (1870-1920) -- pt. 2. Conceiving a political community. The spiritual vs. the political : global religion and Indian politics, 1917-1933 -- The protestant disavowal of Christian communalism, 1910-1933 -- The indigenization of Catholic action, 1921-1937 -- pt. 3. Caste and communal identity. Religion, caste and political rhetoric, 1925-1937 -- At the margins of marginality : Dalit Christians, 1917-1937 -- Conclusion
ER  -