Chandra Mallampalli: 3 books
Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India
Trials of an Interracial Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern...
A Muslim Conspiracy in British India?
Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth-Century Deccan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
As the British prepared for war in Afghanistan in 1839, rumours spread of a Muslim conspiracy based in India's Deccan region. Colonial officials were convinced that itinerant preachers of jihad - whom they labelled 'Wahhabis' - were collaborating with Russian and Persian armies and inspiring Muslim...
Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937
Contending with Marginality
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources,...