Theme IV
Conversion Discourse
The conceptual framework missionaries imposed — heathen damnation, schools as conversion tools, Christianity as liberation and fulfillment.
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Heathen Damnation
Without Christ, these people are eternally lost — the foundational claim that non-Christian religions lead to perdition.
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Missionary Schools as Tools for Conversion
The use of education infrastructure — schools, colleges — as deliberate instruments of religious conversion.
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Christianity as Liberation
The framing of Christianity as liberating Indians from the bondage of caste, superstition, and social oppression.
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Christianity as Fulfillment
The claim that Christianity is the fulfillment of what Hindu traditions were groping toward — the completion of an incomplete quest.
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Religious Demography as Weapon
Obsession with counting converts, leading to census categories and religion as population percentage.
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