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The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960

This monograph, based on my doctoral thesis, studies the evolution of modern religion-state relations in colonial and postcolonial India, and the role of the minority Christian community in that process. It engages innovatively with cutting-edge research on secularism in a number of disciplines, and does so by proposing that governance and community-formation are inter-connected processes. In order to construct and narrate that complex story, the book uses a vast range and quantity of sources, found in government and private archives in the UK and India – including legal sources, government and mission records, private papers, biographical material and fiction.