Tryst with the pen

Colonization,missionization and 19th century assam Bhaskar J Nath The 19th century missionization process in Assam and northeast india was undoubtedly a part of British colonization of India . British control over the northeast region in the nineteenth century – the region mainly inhabited by the Indigenous peoples open doors for the missionaries. The leading missionaries who came to Northeast India in the nineteenth century belonged to the American Baptist Foreign Mission and Welsh Presbyterian .Christian missionaries inveigled the hard working people of Orissa, Chotnagpur and as post colonial discourses indicate,missionaries played an important role in the migration of the working class to assam. During the colonial era, they played a pivotal role in spreading Christianity and ushering an westernization. colonialist rulers and planters used the Christian missionaries to dominate the colonized people with the bible . Imperialist Britishers as expanded their colonial territor...