ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with "the beyond," that is, twenty-first-century presses, pedagogies, and practices that ignore the topic of precolonial Christians of India. It identifies the source of the problem in the premise that Christianity is Western. It posits that the orientalist direction of marketing and pedagogy can be explained by customers’ orientalist take on the subject of Christianity. And finally, this chapter links the erroneous premise-that Christianity is Western-to atrocities against Indian Christians. It revisits the previous chapters, reviews highlights, and offers the alternative focus on pre-British colonialism and South India as an urgently needed strategic choice in Early Modern Studies, South Asian Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. The conclusion establishes that to discuss the anti-colonial turn of Thomas Christians in the early phases of the colonization of India is to recognize resistance as an act not of heresy but rather of social justice.
