Communications Between Cultures: Difficulties in the Design and Distribution of Christian Literature in Nineteenth-Century India
The nineteenth century, saw the heyday of Protestant missionary activity in the Indian subcontinent. South Asia - even then with one fifth of the world’s population - was such a magnet for Christian missionaries that it was estimated that one-third of all such ‘labourers in foreign lands’ were opera...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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Studies in church history
Year: 2004, Volume: 38, Pages: 339-356 |
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| Summary: | The nineteenth century, saw the heyday of Protestant missionary activity in the Indian subcontinent. South Asia - even then with one fifth of the world’s population - was such a magnet for Christian missionaries that it was estimated that one-third of all such ‘labourers in foreign lands’ were operating there. This was despite the deliberate policy of the East India Company to discourage missionary activity in India (used throughout this paper in the old sense of ‘undivided India’) as liable to foment unrest and therefore upset the economic health of the country which from the Company’s perspective was of paramount importance, not its spiritual well-being. This antipathy was the reason, for instance, why William Carey and colleagues founded their famous pioneering mission in 1798 not in Calcutta in the Company’s territory but further up the Hooghly river in the tiny settlement of Serampore then under Danish rule. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400015916 |
