This text examines the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India. By focusing on a dispute between two missionaries in Madurai in the beginning of the 17th century, it chronicles the first efforts at explaining the origin, structure and nature of local religious practices.
- ISBN10 0195658825
- ISBN13 9780195658828
- Publish Date 1 February 2002 (first published December 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Paperback
- Pages 294
- Language English