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Empire Religiosity: Convent Habits in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Empire Religiosity: Convent Habits in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Allender, Tim

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 206

Religion General General World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 1526159104
ISBN13: 9781526159106
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jul 23 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

WINNER of the Triennial Distinguished Book Award, 2022-25, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University, South Bend, USA

This book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into their idiomatic activism, juxtaposed with a contrarian Protestant raj and with their own church patriarchies. During the Great Revolt of 1857, these women religious hid in church steeples. They were forced into the medical care of sexually diseased women in Lock Hospitals. They followed the Jesuits to experimental tribal village domains and catered for elites in the airy hilltop stations of the raj. Yet, they could not escape the eugenic and child rescue practices that were the flavour of the imperial day.

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