The Disinherited (Record no. 63601)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674302679
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zaafa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/103A, H No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi
Bill Number : ZBD0135
Bill Date : 03/06/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 361.3 BAN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Banerjee, Mou.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Disinherited
Remainder of title : The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Mou Banerjee.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , England
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 357p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 489
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics.<br/><br/>In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire’s Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small—Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India’s population during the nineteenth century—Bengal’s majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the permanent ejection of religious minorities from Indian ideals of nationhood.<br/><br/>Mou Banerjee details what happened as Hindus and Muslims grew increasingly suspicious of converts, missionaries, and evangelically minded British authorities.Fearing that converts would subvert resistance to British imperialism, Hindu and Muslim critics used their influence to define the new Christians as a threatening “other” outside the bounds of authentic Indian selfhood. The meaning of conversion was passionately debated in the burgeoning sphere of print media, and individual converts were accused of betrayal and ostracized by their neighbors. Yet, Banerjee argues, the effects of the panic extended far beyond the lives of those who suffered directly. As Christian converts were erased from the Indian political community, that community itself was reconfigured as one consecrated in faith. While India’s emerging nationalist narratives would have been impossible in the absence of secular Enlightenment thought, the evolution of cohesive communal identity was also deeply entwined with suspicion toward religious minorities.<br/><br/>Recovering the perspectives of Indian Christian converts as well as their detractors,The Disinherited is an eloquent account of religious marginalization that helps to explain the shape of Indian nationalist politics in today’s era of Hindu majoritarianism.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Christian Conversion
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element The Politics
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Disinherited
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Mou Banerjee
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 09/06/2025 Zafaa Books & Distributors 489.00 1 2 361.3 BAN 30940 05/11/2025 14/08/2025 09/06/2025 Books
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