MISSIONARY CONSPIRACY? Letters to a Post-Modern Hindu

This is a pre-order. The book is scheduled to be published in September.

Why would a Swiss or a Canadian woman make her home in a poor village in India to nurse the sick, care for the widows and educate the illiterate?

In 1994, a highly respected public
intellectual, Arun Shourie, argued that
Christian missions were a conspiracy of
British colonialism. After colonizing
India militarily, the British brought
missionaries to colonize (not educate)
the Indian mind, to harvest our souls
and to destroy our culture.

Vishal Mangalwadi, who had partnered
with Arun Shourie in 1987 in opposing
the revival of widow-burning,
responded with ten letters explaining
that the missionary movement was a
divine conspiracy to bless India.

Unarmed missionaries needed to
reform the Raj in order to remove
deeply entrenched social practices like
untouchability, female infanticide,
child-marriage and widow-burning and
to promote education, healthcare
scientific agriculture.