David Mosse, The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India

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2015

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Alpa Shah, « David Mosse, The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India », South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal


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David Mosse’s The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a scholarly feat of a kind that we don’t often see today. Placed in an Anthropology of Christianity series, this is a must-read for anyone interested in Indian history, Dalits, caste and social transformation. The book combines rich historical research on Christianity in Tamil Nadu spanning four centuries alongside fieldwork data collected over the last three decades in a village Mosse calls ‘Alapuram’ in the Sivagangai District of Tamil Nadu. It is...

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