The Basel Mission between Switzerland, Germany and South India

Table of Contents

PART 1: Mission and Its Historiography

1: Introduction: The Basel Mission in nineteenth century South India. - Amal Shahid, Ella Müller, Mukesh Kumar

2: Interconnected and multifaceted approaches to Protestant mission histories. - Felicity Jensz; PART 2: Basel Mission in India and Europe

3. Christianity for Industry and Industry for Christianity: The Basel Mission in Europe and India, c. 1850-1900 - Bernhard C. Schär

4: Missions as Terrains of Exchange? The Kanarese Evangelical Mission in the Interwar Years (1918–1928) - Philippe Bornet

PART 3: Basel Mission and Caste

5. Social Engineering in the Praxis of Basel Mission - Jaiprakash Raghaviah

6. A Photographic Perspective on Recasting the Caste Individuals: An Exploration of Basel Mission’s Industries in Malabar - Chinjumol KR; PART 4: Gender and the Basel Mission

7: Translating Matriliny through the Interpretative Structures of Colonial/Missionary Patriarchy - Parinitha Shetty

8: “So much depends on the proper preparation of the Bible Women” – The training practice of Bible Women of the Basel (Women's) Mission between 1880-1940 in South India - Sandra Langhop

PART 5: The Materialities of Basel Mission

9: The Basel Mission collection from India: Colonial entanglements, missionary interpretation and local agency - Isabella Bozsa

10: Material Manifestations: Basel Mission Terracotta Tiles and Factories of Mangalore - Priya Joseph

11: Afterword: Entangling Histories, Unsettling Legacies - Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim