Paternalism and Freedom
The Evangelical Encounter in Colonial Chhattisgarh, Central India
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3624944 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Saurabh Dube (0000-0002-4766-4694, University of Delhi, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1995 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 171-201 |
| Data de publicação | 1995-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x0001266x |
| OpenAlex | W2170670226 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 15 |
This paper traces aspects of the evangelical encounter in Chhattisgarh, a large region bound through linguistic ties in Central India. Evangelical missionaries, bearing the Cross and signs of civilization, arrived in Chhattisgarh in the 1860s. Oscar Lohr, the pioneer missionary of the German Evangelical Mission Society, chanced upon a group of heathens, the Satnamis, whose faith enjoined them to believe in one god and to reject idolatory and caste. Was this not the hand of 'divine providence'? The missionary, it seemed, had only to reveal the evangelical 'truth' to the Satnamis before they woulden masse'witness' and be redeemed by Christ-the-Saviour. The group did not see the coming of the millennium. It did not go forward to meet its destiny. The missionaries persevered. The halting enterprise of conversion in the region grew primarily through ties of kinship among indigenous groups and the prospects of a better life under the paternalist economy of mission stations
Caste · Civilization · Colonialism · Destiny (ISS module · Faith · German · Indigenous · Manifest destiny · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Witness · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
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