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Susan Billington Harper. In the Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. 2000. Pp. xix, 462. $45.00.

The Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay once referred to the established Protestant Church of Ireland as the most absurd ecclesiastical institution that ever existed. He must have forgotten about the Anglican ecclesiastical establishment in British India. The imperial anomalies and contradictions of a Protestant established church in a largely Catholic nation were magnified many times in the case of a Protestant established church in a largely Hindu and Muslim nation. 1

Originally created solely for Europeans in India, the Anglican Church of India found itself with parochial responsibility for hundreds of thousands of Indians who became Christians as a result of the work of privately funded missionary societies. By the early twentieth century, the established church was a multiracial institution riddled with contradictions. The predominantly Indian laity were supervised by European bishops who had received degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin, before taking up residence in India. Most Anglican bishops, however, were committed in principle to a policy of promoting Indian leaders who would eventually govern an indigenous Indian Christian church. Consecrated in 1912 as Bishop of Dornakal, V. S. Azariah was the first Indian bishop of the Anglican Church. . . .

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