Missionaries and their medicine: a christian modernity for tribal India

By:

Hardiman, David

Publication details: Manchester University Press 2008 Manchester:Description: xvii, 261p.; pbk; 23cmISBN:

9780719095399

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

266.00899147 HAR

Summary: Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of 'Christian modernity.' https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719095399/

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Includes bibliography and index.

Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of 'Christian modernity.'

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