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Missionary pedagogy and Christianisation of the heathens

The educational institutions introduced by the Basel Mission in Mangalore

Department of English, Mangalore University

The Basel Evangelical Missionary Society came to India in 1834 and established its first school two years later. Through the formation of a carefully structured and disciplined pedagogic community at its mission school, the Basel Mission hoped to insert its version of Protestant Christianity into a society that already possessed its own well-entrenched religious traditions. In the years to follow, the Basel Mission Schools increased in number and diversified in structure and curriculum. This article studies how this resulted in unforeseen socio-religious restructurings of the local people, even as it recontoured the Christianity brought by the missionaries.

Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol. 45, No. 4, 509-551 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/001946460804500402


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