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Article: In The Shadow of the Mahatma: Bishop V. S. Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India.(Review)
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
- Author:
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By Susan Billington Harper. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans; and Richmond, Surrey, U.K: Curzon Press, 2000. Pp. xxii, 462. $45.
As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in the early 1980s, Susan Billington Harper was Challenged by the mission historian Bishop Stephen Neil "to fulfill his own dream of producing a critical scholarly biography of Bishop Azariah" (p. xv). Neil would be deeply satisfied with this exceptional biography. Thoroughly researched, written with verve, sympathetically presented, and richly contextual, In the Shadow of the Mahatma is a significant contribution to both the history of the church and the history of modern India.
During his years as ...