Mission, Conversion and Violence against Indian Christians
Mission, Conversion and Violence against Indian Christians Introduction The expressions mission, conversion and violence against Christians are complex. However, the fact that the book Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines by Rajiv Malhotra and Arvindan Neelakandan was first published in 2011 and its twenty-second impression was in 2023, alarmingly suggests the state of affairs of the Christians as construed by the so called majority in India. It is more alarming that the same themes of the book are elaborated further in Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0 by Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan published in 2022. Some religiously fanatic intellectuals claim that the Protestant evangelists and colonialists of the East India Company had set up separate Indological institutions with mandates ‘to weaken the Indian civilization’ and these institutions collaborate ‘between Western academics and Indian scholars’. It is like ‘toda