ABSTRACT
Much of the literature dealing with Indian Christians during the early twentieth century has attempted to measure Christian commitment to Indian nationalist campaigns and ideology.1 Commitment to nationalism has become the chief index by which to measure the “Indian-ness” of Christians or their integration into the public mainstream.2 By orienting itself so strongly toward All-India or continental Indian nationalism, however, such literature has overlooked the significance of regional politics, particularly those of the Madras Presidency, which contained the vast majority of India’s Christians. An alternative way to measure Indian-ness would be to consider the extent to which Christians had accommodated themselves to a regional, political culture.
