Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920

Description

Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.

'Essential ... reading for anyone concerned with subcontinental religion and the missionary impulse in the post-Mutiny period, Bellenoit's project is formidably researched and closely argued.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'an important contribution to South Asian social and educational history, to the history of the modern Protestant missionary movement, and to the wider debate over the relationships between religion, missions and empire.' New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies '[Bellenoit] is particularly good on the day-to-day workings of educational bureaucracy, and his detailed analysis topples many broad stereotypes.' Victorian Studies 'Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, itself offers a thickly woven, immensely readable narrative, which is based on a refreshingly diligent use of archival sources from India and the UK.' Biblio