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This widely read book remains the only history of the Dalit Christians as a whole since it first appeared in 1992. Now, in this third edition, it has been thoroughly revised to incorporate recent research. In addition, it has also been expanded to cover important events and developments since 1990, including the important case affecting all Dalit Christians now before the Supreme Court.This edition continues to set the history of the Dalit Christians within the ...
This book has a double focus: the religious strategies which Dalits have adopted to free themselves from religiously imposed, religiously sanctioned degradation and the perspectives from which this subject has been studied. It includes not only data from historical and field research but also an examination of some of the theoretical issues which have influenced thinking about that data. It begins with a description first of Dalit religion at the end of the ...
The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by Indian social realities than by missionary designs. This book presents, for the first time, a connected and comprehensive social history of Christianity in North-West India. The British called this region 'The Punjab and its Dependencies'. Today it comprises the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, ...
Between ten and fifteen percent of all Dalits in India are Christians. Between two-thirds and three-quarters of all Christians in India are Dalits. This is the first attempt to write their history and its set within the context of the modern Dalit movement. After a brief discussion of the origins of caste and untouchability, Webster traces this history from the late nineteenth century up to 1990. He sees the Dalit movement and Dalit Christian history passing ...