An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.
Introduction
A Christian Company?
The East India Company, Britain and India: 1770-1790
The 1790s: A Time of Crisis
The Pillar of Fire Moves Foreward: The Advent of British Missionaries, 1793-1806
The Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove: The Vellore Mutiny and The Pamphlet War, 1806-1808
Troubled Years, 1807-1812
Battle Lines Drawn: Missions, Dissent and the Establishment
The 1813 Renewal of the Company's Charter: The Religious Public Takes on the Company
A Turbulent Frontier: The Company and Religion, 1814-1828
A New Dawn? The Era of Lord William Bentinck, 1828-1835
Between Scylla and Charibdis, 1836-1858
Conclusion and Epilogue: Strangers in the Land