Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements vii
Introduction Chad M. Bouman Richard Fox Young ix
Part I Who and What is an Indian Christian?
1 Godparents and the Mother's Brother: 'Spiritual' Parenthood among the Latin Catholics of Kerala, South India Miriam Benteler 3
2 Between Christian and Hindu: Kbrist Bhaktas, Catholics and the Negotiation of Devotion in the Banaras Region Kerry P. C. San Chirico 23
3 Interlocking Caste with Congregation: A Political Necessity for Dalit Christians in Andhra, South India? Ashok Kumar M. 45
Part 2 Whose Religion is Indian Christianity?
4 Late 16th- and Early 17th-Century Contestations of Catholic Christianity at the Mughal Court Gulfishan Khan 61
5 Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion and the Development of the Tamil Hymn in Colonial South India Hephzibah Israel 86
6 From Christian Ashrams to Dalit Theology - or Beyond? An Examination of the Indigenisation/Inculturation Trend within the Indian Catholic Church Xavier Gravend-Tirole 110
7 Taking the Cross and Walking from Subalternity to Modernity James Ponniah 138
Part 3 Can Christianity be Indian?
8 Times of Trouble for Christians in Muslim and Hindu Societies of South Asia Georg Pfeffer 161
9 The Interreligious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalisation, Geertz and Hindu-Christian Conflict Chad M. Bauman 188
10 Studied Silences? Diasporic Nationalism, 'Kshatriya Intellectuals' and the Hindu American Critique of Dalit Christianity's Indianness Richard Fox Young Sunder John Boopalan 215
Afterword I Anne E. Monius 239
Afterword II Rowena Robinson 246
About the Editors 253
Notes on Contributors 254
Index 256