India's Nonviolent Freedom Struggle

The Thomas Christians (1599-1799)
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-53867-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle. It focuses on the Thomas Christians, a group of Christians in South India who waged a nonviolent struggle against European colonization during the politically volatile period of 1599–1799.

The book has three related objectives and unique characteristics. First, it offers a comprehensive study of primary sources that scholars have referenced but rarely studied in depth. Second, it argues that the Thomas Christian narratives provide a unique position to challenge prevalent estimations found in canonical and postcolonial critical discourse on the nation. Third, the book considers how an account of a nonviolent struggle by Thomas Christians further complicates received ideas of the postcolonial nation.

The book sheds light on the often-overlooked contributions of the Thomas Christians in India’s nonviolent freedom struggle and challenges readers to reimagine the complex and often contentious relationship between colonizers and colonized.

A unique contribution to the study of Indian history, this book is an essential read for scholars of colonialism, anticolonial movements, and the history of India.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, Clara A. B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Introduction: The Nonviolent Freedom Struggle; 2. Anticolonial Archives of the Sixteenth Century; 3. The Freedom Fighter as Heretic in the Seventeenth Century; 4. "We Are All Indians": National Discourse in the Eighteenth Century; 5. Conclusion: Nonviolent Decolonialism in Recent Times; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clara A. B. Joseph is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal’s Gandhian Fiction (2008) and Christianity in India: The Anti-Colonial Turn (Routledge 2019).