ABSTRACT
Steven Vertovec has recently commented that while theoretical formulations of the subject of diaspora have engaged with many new dimensions, the aspect of religion has remained largely at the margins. Most discussions of Indian diasporic fiction too are more often than not pivoted on the Hindu or Vedic myths and metaphors. The spread of Christianity in India is generally believed to be linked to Western missionary proselytization during the age of imperialism through the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. Because of this link to the conquistador races, those among the Indian community have been conceived as aligning themselves to and abetting with the imperial force and thus betraying their own. As Western discourse was being disseminated by most imperial evangelizing methods there were also other threads that were interwoven within the Indian-Christian apostolic garment, that reflected nativized shades as Christian doctrine met with and was interpellated with Indian culture and custom.
