Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940

by Jeffrey Cox and Jeffrey R. Cox

Imperial Fault Lines tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians in a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early nineteenth century. As British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab, their preconceived ideas about Hinduism and Islam broke down rapidly as they established institutions requiring the close...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804743185
• ISBN13: 9780804743181
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"