A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”
…cation system shaped by Thomas Macaulay, whose stated aim was to create “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Thanks in large part to church-funded publications and university scholarship, Christianity also became part of the rhetoric of liberation among low caste populations and regional language groups such as Tamils. This idea of Christianity “liberating” the uncivilize…
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