Harvard University Press publishes Mou Banerjee’s The Disinherited
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Harvard University Press published Mou Banerjee’s The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India.
Why it matters
Harvard University Press published Mou Banerjee’s The Disinherited. The book foregrounds the concept of 'disinheritance' to analyze Indian Christian subjectivity across colonial and postcolonial periods. Chapter 4 uses colonial and missionary archives to document the dispossession of Christian peasants in Baropakhya and records a split between evangelical supporters of converts and planter interests. Chapter 2 examines high-profile conversions of upper-caste schoolboys and attendant Anglo-Indian court disputes over maturity, conscience, and parental rights. Chapter 3 analyzes Gyanendramohan’s 1851 legal battle with his aristocratic father after the Lex Loci Act 1850 and compares disinheritance experiences across socio-economic classes, while noting a reviewer critique about the need for finer caste-class qualifications.
Implications
- • Establishes an interpretive framing ('disinheritance') that shapes scholarly readings of conversion, caste, and inheritance in colonial India.
- • Provides archival documentation of peasant dispossession and legal cases relevant to studies of land rights and colonial legal processes.
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