Baba Padmanji: Vernacular Christianity in Colonial India

by Deepra Dandekar

This book is a critical biography of Baba Padmanji (1831-1906), a firebrand native Christian missionary, ideologue, and litterateur from 19th-century Bombay Presidency. Though Padmanji was well-known, and a very influential figure among Christian converts, his contributions have received inadequate attention from the perspective of 'social reform' - an intellectual domain dominated by offshoots of the Brahmo Samaj movement, like the Prarthana Samaj...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367503905
• ISBN13: 9780367503901
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"