Table of Contents

Preface; The spelling of Indian names; Abbreviations; Maps; Part I: 1. The Indian background; 2. Christianity comes to India; 3. From medieval to modern; 4. Christians in the Indian Middle Age; Part II: 5. Europe and Asia; contact and conflict; 6. Beginnings of mission; 7. The jesuits and the Indian church; 8. Akbar and the jesuits; 9. Rome and the Thomas Christians; 10. Lights and shadows; Part III: 11. India in the Seventeenty Century; 12. The mission of Mathurai; 13. The Thomas Christians again; 14. Other Roman Catholic missions; 15. Non-Roman Catholic Christianity in India; Appendices; Notes; Select bibliographies; Index.