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TITLE
CERTIFICATE
DECLARATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABBREVIATIONS
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Statement of the problem
1.2 Purpose of the study
1.3 Hypothesis
1.4 Scope of the study
1.5 Methodology
1.6 Sources of the study
1.7 Organisation of the study
1.8 Limitations
2. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION OF INDIA
2.1 Background
2.2 The Pluralistic situation
2.3 Mission
2.4 Conventional missionary approach
2.5 Meaning of conversion
2.5.1 Conversion: Hindu perception
2.5.2 Conversion: Christian understanding
2.6 Conversion -Changing Christian perception
2.7 Niyogi commission report
2.8 Christian mission activities: The present scenario
2.8.1 From western to indigenous missions
2.8.2 The contemporary situation: An overview
2.8.3 Evangelization crusades
2.9 Why Christian mission groups are concentrating their activities in North India’s tribal belt?
2.9.1 The agenda of Christian missions working in parts of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
2.10 Mission activities in the tribal villages of Bastar, Bilaspur and Raipur of Madhya Pradesh Raigada and Phulbani of Orissa: Findings of the case studies
2.10.1 IET and their main activities
2.10.2 The various ministries of IET and how they work
.2.10.3 IEHC and their main activities
2.10.4 IEM and their main activities
2.11 Why tribals and other backward classes are attracted to Christianity?
2.12 Why Hindu groups oppose Christian missionary activities?
3. HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN INDIA
3.1 The origin of Christianity in India
3.2 The Syrian tradition
3.3 Socio-cultural life of St. Thomas Christians
3.4 The Portuguese intrusion
3.5 Portuguese-St. Thomas Christian interface
3.6 St. Francis Xavier and Jesuit mission
3.7 Robert De Nobili and the Madurai mission
3.8 The Mogul mission
3.9 Portuguese missions: An assessment
3.10 The Protestant missions
3.10.1 The first Protestant mission
3.10.2 The British period
4. IMPACT OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONSAN OVERVIEW
4.1 The impact of missions, a summing up
4.2 Christian missions and English education
5. RESPONSES TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS
5.1 Back ground: Socio-religious movements of nineteenth-century
5.2 Modern Hindu responses
5.3 Mahatma Gandhi
6. GANDHI AND THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS
6.1 Early contact with Christianity
6.2 Days in London
6.3 Critical maturing phase in South Africa
6.4 Gandhi’s response to missionaries
6.5 Contact with ECU
6.6 Influence of Leo Tolstoy
6.7 The final phase
6.8 Encounter with Christian missions
6.9 On the place of missions in Independent India
6.10 State and religion
6.11 Gandhi’s attitude towards Indian Christian community
6.12 Gandhi’s views on religious conversion: A deeper probe
6.13 Why Gandhi opposed proselytization?
7. GANDHI’S MODEL FOR CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND SOME CHRISTIAN RESPONSES
7.1 How should Christian missions conduct themselves?
7.2 Christian responses to the model offered by Gandhi Background
7.3 Three contemporary witnesses
CONCLUSION
Gandhian guidelines for Christian missions in India, a summing up
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