Author: Koji Kawashima
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 252
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195655346
Description
This book examines how a self-declared Hindu state, Travancore, using Christian missionaries, transformed itself into a modern state.
The author claims that the relationship between the princely state, missionaries, and British paramountcy was not fixed or static but substantially a changing one. The first section of the book looks at the state rituals of Travancore, which were largely created in the eighteenth century, and investigates the nature of the Hindu state. The following sections deal with the relationship between missionaries and British imperialism, the development of education and medicine, and the caste and communal policies of the state. The author also examines the neighboring state of Cochin to provide a comparative case study.