Preach and Heal : A History of the Christian Missionaries in India

Contents: Foreword/Basudev Chattopadhyay. Preface and acknowledgement. About the contributors. 1. Introduction/Sandeep Sinha. 2. Vicious customs and usages in nineteenth century Bengal: a missionary resume/Abhijit Dutta. 3. William Carey the educationist and social reformer/Amitabha Mukherjee. 4. David Hare and the cultural production of nineteenth century Calcutta: A brief review/Arabinda Samanta. 5. Charles Freer Andrews/Bhabatosh Datta. 6. Serampore Missionaries and science/Chittabrata Palit. 7. Preaching and healing : contribution of Christian Frederick Schwartz (1726-1798) to social healing in South India/Daniel Jeyaraj. 8. Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur (1867-1951)/D. Arthur Jeyakumar. 9. Carey Our Contemporary: Relevance of Carey\'s \'Enquiry\' Today/Eleanor Jackson. 10. William Ward : The making of a missionary in the 18 Century/E. Daniel Potts. 11. The emerging Dalit Theology: a historical appraisal/George Oommen. 12. The beginning of a missionary crusade against caste: Early 19 century Tinnevelly/Godwin Shiri. 13. Dalit conversions to Christianity in North Coastal Andhra Pradesh/James Elisha. 14. Jesuits-Men on a mission--Their contributions to Bengal/J. Felix Raj SJ. 15. Gospel-culture inter-action in the Serampore missionaries/K.P. Aleaz. 16. Brother Bakht Singh: an apostle of the 20 Century/Lal Rosem. 17. The contribution of missionaries to education in Bengal, 1793-1837/Michael A. Laird. 18. Charles Dall and the American Unitarian Mission in Calcutta/Nikhilesh Guha. 19. Christianity, Modernisation and and social change: The Protestant Missions and the question of \'Pariah-Uplift\' in the Nineteenth century South India/Rajsekhar Basu. 20. Medical missions--a mega contribution of Christian missionaries/Siga Arles. 21. Healing the sick was preaching of William Carey/Sunil Kumar Chatterjee.

"This is an attempt to highlight the missionaries\' activities in India and show how they have helped common Indians when they needed them most. Some of the articles here show how they had worked among the poor, the low castes and the outcasts while the others throw light on the activities of the famous Serampore Trio. Some authors also bring out analytical sketches of those extra-ordinary figures among the missionaries. All the articles are the result of painstaking researches of the contributors who depended both on primary and scriptural references and this has made the volume a unique one." (jacket)