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Excerpt from Some South Indian Villages, Vol. 1 Picottah And Improved Bullock Lift, Used In South Arcot; A Splendid Crop Of Sugar-Cane; Harvesting Paddy; Treading Out The Corn (Paddy); Kabalais Not At Work; Kabalai And Picottah In Same Well; A Splendid Crop Of Ragi; A Good Crop Of Cholam; Tinnevelly Cart Taking Cotton To Market - Load About 10 Cwt; Uprooting Paddy Seedlings For Transplantation; Transplanting Paddy, Crop Of Sunn-Hemp Grown For Green Manure In Background; Green Manure On Paddy Land; Approach To Thettupalli; Kabalai At Work, Thettupalli Village; Agricultural Implements Used In Thettupalli; Oil Mill In Thettupalli; Village Of Thettupalli; Sugar-Cane Crushing; Map Of Vunagatla; Roofing A Hut With Palmyra Leaves; Courtyard Of Nambudri House; Guest Chamber Of Nambudri House; Group Of Nambudri Brahmans; Levelling Board At Work; Cheruma Hut Near Trichur, Cochin State; "Ratanam," A Form Of Water-Lift (Tiruvallur); Harvesting Paddy In North Malabar, Fields Still Wet; Pepper Garden In Malabar; Implements Used In Godavari District; "Karim," Water-Lift Used In Godavari Delta About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was uncertain. Would they grow through conversions or slowly dissolve into the larger Hindu society around them? John Carman and Chilkuri Vasantha Rao s carefully gathered research fifty years later reveals both the decline of many older congregations and the surprising emergence of new Pentecostal and Baptist churches that emphasize the healing power of Christ. Significantly, the new congregations largely cut across caste lines, including both high castes and outcastes (Dalits). Carman and Vasantha Rao pay particular attention to the social, political, and religious environment of these Indian village Christians, including their adaptation of indigenous Hindu practices into their Christian faith and observances.

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