We are so grateful to Professor Mitra Sharafi  (University of Wisconsin, Madison) for coming back to the blog this past month and posting a ...

I’ve given up trying to assign undergraduate research papers in the age of AI. The misconduct approach–assigning papers and trying to catch AI use–does not seem to be working. However, I am happy with...

An excerpt from ‘The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India’, by Mou Banerjee.

A Brahmin convert to Catholicism, Bhabanicharan Banerjee, had once communicated his vision for a free nation in the toughest of circumstances – while undergoing trial.

Notre Dame’s Department of History offers a graduate Ph.D. program in the fields Latin American, medieval, modern European, and United States history, as well as undergraduate majors and courses spann...

A deep dive into how Christian conversions in colonial Bengal shaped debates on caste, inheritance, and nationalism.

The XQs (Ten Questions) series is a conversation with the authors of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies, whose aim is not to “review” but to contextualize, historicize, and promote new scho...

While Europe experienced an age of evangelical awakening in the eighteenth century, political circumstances in India posed challenges to the work of missionary preaching.

It explicitly references the disempowerment suffered by Christian converts in India in the 19th and the 20th centuries as a consequence of the complex mechanisms of conversion under conditions of colo...

This conversation explores the complex interplay of religion and politics in modern India, focusing on the historical context of Christianity and its evolution from colonial times to the present. The ...

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The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India February 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM CT 206 Ingraham Hall Presentation Details In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially p...

An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion “panic” that indelibly shaped the traje...

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A books-for-grain deal allowed India to get crucial food aid while US libraries built up a treasure trove of literature.