Missionaries and Their Medicine - A Christian Modernity for Tribal India

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The Bhils
3. The mission to the Bhils
4. The great famine
5. The conversion of the Bhagats
6. Christian healing
7. Fighting demons
8. Woman's work for woman
9. A little empire
10. Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer
11. A mission for a postcolonial era
12. Medical modernity
13. Closure
14. Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity
Bibliography
Index

About the author

David Hardiman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Summary

Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. -- .

Product details

• Authors: David Hardiman, Hardiman David
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2014
• EAN: 9780719095399
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9539-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism (Paperb; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Religious mission and Religious Conversion, HISTORY / Asia / South / India