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- Title: Anti-Colonialism in Christian Churches: A Case Study of Political Discourse in the South Indian Methodist Church in Colonial Malaya, 1890S-1930S (Case Study)
- Author : SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 270 KB
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While the history of resistance in the labour and rural communities are well studied (Rerceremam 2003, pp. 177-85), there is little to no research done on the resistance of their more well-to-do counterparts. This article thus will focus on the anti-colonial resistance of the middle-class, white-collar and English-speaking religious community. Indeed, different shades of political resistance existed among this community despite fears of governmental retribution. Dravidian Nationalism, Eastern Nationalism and even the Methodist Church discourses importantly contributed to the formation of oppositional space and growth of intellectual freedom. This article hopes to debunk the prevalent perception of the middle-class Indian groups as unthinkingly pro-British such that others often derogatorily referred to them as "Black Europeans" (Stenson 1970, p. 29; Stenson 1980, p. 64; Sundaram and Todd 1994, p. 67; Dass 1991, p. 30). The period of study will generally span the establishment of the Methodist Church in the 1890s till the decade preceding World War II. In recent years, publications dealing with Christian denominations, such as Ernest Lau's From Mission to Church (2008) and Eugene Wijeysinghe's Going Forth--The Catholic Church in Singapore (2006), have primarily dealt with historical accounts of missional, organizational and ecclesiastical developments and do not directly address the socio-political issues. Earlier publications like Rabindra Daniel's Indian Christians in Peninsular Malaysia (1991) or Hunt, Lee, and Roxburgh's Christianity in Malaysia (1992) are largely contemporary studies with little emphasis on political developments. In short, there has hardly been any research examining reactions of the Indian Christian Church communities toward the British Colonial Government in Malaya and the Straits Settlements.
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