Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India

ISBN-13: 9780367503901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 116 str.

Deepra Dandekar

Opis

This book is a critical biography of Baba Padmanji (1831-1906), a firebrand native Christian missionary, ideologue, and litterateur from 19th-century Bombay Presidency. .

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Autobiography and Hagiography  3. Engaging the Avant-Garde  4. The Christian Vernacular Genre  5. Yamunaparyatan: The First Marathi Novel  6. Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Deepra Dandekar is a historian of gender and religion, having written her Ph.D. on childbirth rituals in Maharashtra, published in 2017. Writing on religious minorities, migration, and the intellectual history of 19^th and 20^th-century India thereafter, she retains a special interest in the history of Christianity and the importance of narratives for history writing. Her last book The Subhedar’s Son: A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-century Maharashtra was published in 2019, and she presently works as a researcher at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany, on an independent research grant on Muslims in modern Maharashtra.