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Robert Eric Frykenberg. Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500. Assisted by Alaine Low. (Studies in the History of Christian Missions.) Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans and London: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003. Pp. xii, 419. $39.00.

This fine collection of essays suggests that the scholarly history of Christian missions in India has reached maturity and is producing results of real importance for history in general and for the understanding of India, with all its rich and often perplexing diversity of culture, language, and religion, in particular. Editor Robert Eric Frykenberg is the doyen of Indian mission historians. He sets the tone for the rest of the book in two wonderfully balanced and perceptive surveys of contested definitions and perspectives, followed by an overview of the complex origins of Christianity in India. Frykenberg summarily disposes of common misinterpretations, such as that a majority of missionaries consistently supported colonialism and saw their mission as allied irrevocably to imperialism. Contributor Iwona Milewska traces the earliest missionaries' encounters with Sanskrit language and literature and makes clear that only a small minority of missionaries, such as Alexander Duff, were thoroughgoing Anglicists who despised Indian language and culture. Heike Liebau traces the influence of "country priests" and other "native agents" in the Tranquebar Mission from 1705.

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