Contents

Preface

1  Prologue

2  Locating the debates

3  The ideologies of empire: Christian missionaries in a Victorian age

4  The ‘heathens’ and their ‘idols’: Christian missionaries and the edifice of ‘Hinduism’

5  Preaching the kingdom: ‘caste’ and ‘conversion’

6  Christian orthodoxy and Hindu spirituality: ‘particularity’ versus ‘universalism’?

7  Donning the saffron robe: the many meanings of ‘mission’

8  The political bounds of ‘toleration’: Hindus and Christians in ‘secular’ India

9  Conclusion

Index