ABSTRACT
In the two previous chapters brahman and depressed-class conversion to Christianity were explored. The purpose of this chapter is to examine more closely the results of these and other conversion movements into Christianity — to see how far during the period 1850–1900 Christians (some of whose forebears were converted in the sixteenth century) continued to follow Hindu tradition and social customs, or were developing a social system and style of life recognizably different from Hindus. Had the acceptance of Christianity and Christian teaching produced by this time something distinctive and new, or had Christianity itself become ‘Hinduized’ to the extent that there appeared to be little difference between its adherents and Hindus?
