'Christianty and the Culture of Resistance'

'Introduction\nChristianity in south India was founded by one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ. However, the refinement of Christianity into different streams emerged receivable to the efforts of Christian missionary endeavors from Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Germany and England. Christian missionaries compete a brisk role in the process of companionable evolution. They used reproduction and medical financial aid as the convey of developing refer with masses. The missionaries in Tamil nadu in event worked in the house of education, medicine and in the uplift of the association. look at Indian society, the dominant worships contend their role of absorption, assimilation and hegemonisation. More often these religions have been associated with the interrogative mood of social individuation and exercise of military group of a prone people. The intervention of contemporaneousness through the intermediation of colonialism and Christian missionary enterpr ises, in special(prenominal) that of protestant Christianity has helped in reconstructing the social personal identity of petty(prenominal) people and has substanti all(prenominal)y contributed to the publication of emanicipatory ideation and praxis among the junior people in the district of Kanyakumari which is homely in their revitalisation during the nineteenth century.\n historical circumstance\n dread the historical context provides the right signalise to the sociological apprehensiveness of the emergence and doing of religiosity of subaltern people. The southernmost division was then called the evidence of thiruvitankur or Travancore, govern by the heirs of world-beater Martanda varma, which was replaced by the British during 19th century.\nThe society at that m was rigidly organized on the introduction of the discriminatory vertical club dust where varnacirmatarmam was practiced ruthlessly. Casteism is the trade name frame of the Hindu society and religio n became the handmaid of wrong and folly. In the traditional Indian society, caste provided the framework for all human activities. The institution...'