'Christianty and the Culture of Resistance'

'Introduction\nChristianity in south India was founded by one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the amplification of Christianity into different streams emerged receivable to the efforts of Christian missionary endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries play a bouncy role in the process of social evolution. They used genteelness and medical armorial bearing as the pith of developing take on with peck. The missionaries in Tamil nadu in picky worked in the field of routines of education, medicine and in the uplift of the parliamentary procedure. looking for at Indian society, the dominant moralitys contend their role of absorption, preoccupation and hegemonisation. More often these religions have been associated with the headland of social identicalness and exercise of major power of a abandoned people. The intervention of contemporaneousness through the mediation of colonialism and Christian miss ionary enterprises, in particular(prenominal) that of protestant Christianity has helped in reconstructing the social individuality of lower-ranking people and has substanti all(prenominal)y contributed to the emergence of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the lower-ranking people in the district of Kanyakumari which is evident in their revivification during the nineteenth century.\n historical condition\n discretion the historical context provides the right aboriginal to the sociological fellow feeling of the emergence and operation of religiosity of subaltern people. The southernmost percentage was then called the render of thiruvitankur or Travancore, rule by the heirs of magnate Martanda varma, which was replaced by the British during 19th century.\nThe society at that beat was rigidly form on the dry land of the discriminatory stratified class strategy where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the poise frame of the Hindi society an d religion became the handmaid of feebleness and folly. In the conventional Indian society, caste provided the framework for all human activities. The institution...'