Rowena Robinson

Sathianathan Clarke

Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Scences Rowena Robinson

Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics Sathianathan Clarke

This volume covers conversion in India to Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. It looks at the influences on conversion in a comparative perspective. The book seeks to look at the pre-British, British and post-Independence periods.

Modes, Motivations, and Meanings

Religious Conversion in India

Sujata Patel

This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. When more than one category applies to a group, and such categorizations become the basis for the struggle for rights, the politics of identity become even more complex. The volume specifically focuses on 'religious' minorities, questioning the religious identification of groups and showing that the construction of minority groups in religious terms is difficult to achieve given the existence of several, and sometimes contradictory, loyalties and identities. The essays address the minority issue by engaging with different minority communities in India. These also question the relationship of minority identities to caste, gender, and tribal identity. This is the new paperback edition.

Minority Studies (OIP)

This volume explores the complex issue of religious minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It questions the religious identification of groups and demonstrates problems with such categorization. This is the first volume in the new series, Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society.

Minority Studies

Christians of India is an important study on Christian communities in India. Robinson feels that this area, like the study of all non-Hindu communities, has suffered from enormous neglect. She traces the roots of this to the time when the disciplines of Sociology and Anthropology first came came to India.

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