This book studies the politics of Pentecostal conversion and
anti-Christian violence in India. It asks: why has India been
experiencing increasing incidents of anti-Christian violence since
the 1990s? Why are the Bhil Adivasis increasingly converting to
Pentecostalism? And, what are the implications of conversion for
religion within indigenous communities on the one hand and broader
issues of secularism, religious freedom and democratic rights on
the other? Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork amongst the
Bhils of Northern India since 2006, this book asserts that
ideological incompatibility and antagonism between Christian
missionaries and Hindu nationalists provide only a partial
explanation for anti-Christian violence in India. It unravels the
complex interactions between different actors/ agents in the
production of anti-Christian violence and provides detailed
ethnographic narratives on Pentecostal conversion, Hindu
nationalist politics and anti-Christian violence in the largest
state of India that has hitherto been dominated by upper caste
Rajput Hindu(tva) ideology.
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