3. First Phase
• The First phase opens with the coming of
Portuguese pirates and the Patron saint the pirates,
Francis Xavier.
• Hindus are helpless and suffer number of
atrocities.
• Fortunately, Portuguese lose power except in Goa
and some other small territories.
4. Second Phase
• It opens with the consolidation of the British
conquest after the final defeat of the Marathas in
1813.
• British do not allow Christian missions to use
physical methods.
• But missionary language continue to be as crude
as ever.
5. The phase ends
with the rise of
Hindu reform
Swami Vivekananda
movements,
particularly the
call given by
Maharshi
Dayanand &
Swami
Vivekananda
6. Third Phase
• It starts with the advent of Mahatma Gandhi &
his slogan of sarva-dharma-sambhaav.
• Christian missions are forced to change their
language.
• Now they are out to “share their spiritual riches”
with Hindus, like a beggar in dirty rags
promising to donate his wardrobe to wealthy
persons.
7. Mahatma Gandhi’s
Mahatma Gandhi
mindless slogan of
sarva-dharma-
sambhava was
proving to be effective
disguise for Christian
missions to steal a
march against
Hinduism.
8. This phase ended with the
Tambram Conference of the
International Missionary Council
(IMC) in 1938 which decided to
reformulate Christian theology in
the Indian context.
9. Fourth Phase
• This phase started with the coming of Independence
and proved a boon for Christianity.
• It now stood recognized as “an ancient Indian
religion” with every right extend itself.
• Christian missionaries could now denounce any one
who raised the slightest objection to their means
and methods as a Hindu communalist, chauvinist
and Hindu Nazi.
10. Pt. Nehru who
First Prime Minister of India
dominated the
scene for 17 long
years, promoted
every anti-Hindu
ideology and
movement behind
the smokescreen
of a counterfeit
secularism.
11. Fifth Phase
• This phase started with Hindu awakening
brought about by the mass conversion of
Harijans to Islam in Tamil Nadu.
• Sangh parivar, startled by the rout of BJP in
1984 Lok Sabha elections, decided to renew its
Hindu character.
• The Ramajanmabhumi was the result. It was
aimed at arresting Islamic aggression.
12.
13. Christian media power in the West
raised a storm, saying that Hindus
were out to destroy the minorities
in India and impose Nazi regime
14. • Hindus are committing a grave mistake in
regarding the encounter between Hinduism &
Christianity as a dialogue between two religions.
• History tells us Christianity has never been
a religion.
• It has always been a predatory imperialism
par excellence.
15. It can be described as war
between the Vedic and the Biblical
traditions.
16.
17. Difference between Vedic & Biblical
tradition
Vedic tradition Biblical tradition
• It allows people to choose • It teaches people to follow
desired path for their own the commands of one
moral & spiritual superior beings without
development. questioning.
• There is no uniform • The only training one
perception for needs thereafter is how to
everybody, no coercion or convert others by all
allurement into a belief available means.
system & no regimentation
for aggression against
others.
18. Vedic tradition has given to the
world schools of Sanatana Dharma
which has practiced peace among
their own followers.
19.
20.
21. Biblical tradition has spawned criminal
cults such as
Christianity, Islam, Communism, and
Nazism which have always produced
violence.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26. • The constitution of Independent India made
things quite smooth for Christian missionaries.
• The bans on Christian missionaries during
British rule were now uplifted .Proselytisation
was much easier now.
• Freedom of propagation does not mean
conversion but Christian missionaries took
disadvantage of this freedom.
27. It was solely due to
Jawahar lal Nehru
Pandit Nehru’s
dishonest demagogy
that forced Hindu and
Hinduism on
defensive and then on
a run for shelter.
28. Census of Growth of Christian
community as compared to General
population
Percentage growth of
100.00% General population
80.00% percentage growth of
Christians
60.00%
40.00%
20.00%
0.00% percentage growth of Christians
Percentage growth of General population
29.
30. According to census of 1901
Christians in the North-east
constituted 1.23% of the whole, by
1951 the proportion was 7.8% and
in 1971, 12.5%.
34. Effects of Catholic Education
• The Catholic education is one of the most
important form of missionary point of view.
• It alienates Hindu young men and women from
their ancestral culture.
• It neutralizes Hindus against missionary point of
view.
35. In 1935, missionaries were
operating 299 primary schools, 9
middle and high schools, and 2
colleges and by 1951 the number
increased to 591 primary
schools, 65 middle and high
schools and 2 colleges.
37. The number of kindergarten in 1990
had reached 7,319, the number of
primary schools 7,319, the number of
secondary school 3,765 and the
number of colleges 240.
39. The medical and social welfare
agencies in 1994 comprises 704
hospitals, 1,792 dispensaries and
health centers, 1085
orphanages, 228 crèches, 111
leprosaria, 102 rehabilitation
centers and 455 homes for the
aged, destitute and handicapped.
41. • Before independence, some Christian
missionaries floated the scheme of a sovereign
Christian state composed of tribal areas in the
North east and Central India.
• The two enclaves were to be linked together by a
corridor towards Christian population in Madras
presidency and the princely states of Travancore
and Cochin.
47. • After Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, Christian
missionaries accompanied every Portuguese
naval expedition to India.
• Rooting out of Hinduism was a special task
assigned to every Portuguese viceroy.
• Schools and colleges were established many
parts of India where education in Bible was
compulsory to Hindu students.
48. Under advice from
Francis Xavier, the
king of Portugal
established the
Inquisition in Goa.
Francis Xavier
His vision was not
confined to India. He
was eyeing the whole
South-east Asia and
the Far East, China
and Japan in
particular.
49. He made study of
Bible compulsory to
Hindus in all
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Christian schools and
colleges.
He design to create
“a class of
persons, Indian in
blood and color, but
English in taste, in
opinions, in
morals, and in
intellect”
50. The British Government (India)
• The British Government of India pretended to be
indifferent to Christian missions but it helped
missionaries indirectly.
• The High court decisions enabled converts to
blackmail their wives to follow them into the
folds of their new religion.
• The government encouraged the missionaries to
work among the backward tribes.
52. Oda Nobunag started
his career of conquest
to unite Japan and in
Oda Nobunag
1568 he encouraged
Catholic missionaries
to built churches.
Under his powerful
protection the
missionaries made
unexpected progress.
53. Hideyoshi, who
succeeded
Nobunag, noticed that
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
the Portuguese had
landed artillery to
protect the area in
which Christians
lived.
He ordered the arrest
of all Spaniards in the
country and had them
crucified in
Nagasakyas spies.
54. Ieyasu seized power in
1600.
Tokugawa Shogun
In 1614 Iyeasu, the
Tokugawa
Shogun, made it clear
that Christian
teachings will no
longer be tolerated
and an edict banning
the religion was issued
that year.
56. • A Portuguese embassy under Thomas Pires was
sent to Peking & the Emperor readily received it.
• In 1565 Jesuits built a residence in Macao and
Christian missionaries started arriving.
• In 1724, the preaching of the Christian religion
was officially suppressed & the foreign
missionaries were deported to Canton.
57. Opium trade
• British East India company forced Opium trade
on China, which led to many Opium wars.
• China was defeated and Christian missionaries
gained the right to operate in China.
• The Christian missionaries created mischief
everywhere and were protected by the consuls of
foreign powers.
58. 70 years of sustained missionary
effort for Christianizing China had
inflicted great damage to Chinese
society & culture.
60. • Siam was able to resist Western pressures for
unequal treaties till 1885.
• Missionary activity had but a little impact on the
people of Siam due to the strength and vitality of
the Buddhist Church.
• Missionary activity in Burma able to effect
neither its social structure nor its religion.
61. The Niyogi Committee published a report on Christian
Missionary Activities. It was published by the
government of Madhya Pradesh.
62. • The Committee contacted 11,360
persons, interviewed people from 700 different
villages and received 375 written statements and
385 replies from a questionnaire.
• The report writes that especially Roman Catholic
missions used money-lending as a device for
proselytisation.
63. “There was a general complaint
from the non-Christian side that
the schools and hospitals were
being used as means of securing
converts."
65. 1. Those missionaries should be asked to
withdraw and the large influx of foreign
missionaries should be checked.
2. The use of medical and other professional
services as a direct means of making
conversions should be prohibited by law.
66. 3. Attempts to convert by force or fraud or
material inducements, or by taking advantage
of a person’s inexperience or confidence or
spiritual weakness or thoughtlessness, or by
penetrating into the religious conscience of
persons for the purpose of consciously altering
their faith, should be absolutely prohibited.
4. The Constitution of India should be amended
in order to rule out propagation by foreigners
and conversions by force, fraud and other illicit
means.
67. 5. Legislative measures should be enacted for
controlling conversion by illegal means.
6. Rules relating to registration of doctors, nurses
and other personnel employed in hospitals
should be suitably amended to provide a
condition against evangelistic activities during
professional service
7. Circulation of literature meant for religious
propaganda without approval of the State
Government should be prohibited.
68. The minister of State of Home
Affairs, B.N. Datar, came
promptly for their defense.
He said “no steps would be taken
to check the work of the foreign
missionaries.”
69. Om Prakash Tyagi introduced a Lok
Sabha Bill No. 178 of 1978 under the
title THE FREEDOM OF RELIFGION
BILL. 1978 “to provide for prohibition
on conversion from one religion to
another by use of force, or
inducement or by fraudulent means &
for matters incidental thereto”
70. A few months later the Janta Party
split and the Morarji government had
to resign.
Tyagi’s Bill could not even be discussed
in the Parliament Thus an opportunity
got enacting an all-India legislation
against forceful conversion was
missed.
71. It is high time for Hindus to dismiss
the dogmas of Christianity with
the contempt it deserves, and pay
attention to the Christian
missionary apparatus planted in
their midst.
