Missionary Literature on India
A scholarly database of 19th-century missionary writings that shaped Western perceptions of Hinduism, caste, and Indian civilization — and their downstream impact through colonial policy and Indian reform movements.
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Multitudes of them have perished, and are still perishing in their sins, and that notwithstanding the light of nature, and the remains of Noachic tradition, the heathens are universally given to idola...
The Hindus have thirty-three millions of gods, and yet they are not satisfied. They are continually adding to the number. They deify everything — rivers, mountains, trees, animals, and even the implem...
The caste system is the great barrier to the progress of Christianity in India. It pervades all Hindu society, and separates man from man with a rigidity which no other institution in the world can pa...
The Hindoos err, because they are ignorant; and their errors have never fairly been laid before them. The communication of our light and knowledge to them would prove the best remedy for their disorde...