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Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India (1543â1773)
Between Mission and Empire
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Jesuit missions in coastal and South India were among the first foundations of the Society of Jesus in the world. They represented models of apostolic action imitated, debated and reformulated in other parts of the world. This book traces the history of the Jesuit missionary activities in the early modern period and shows how the Jesuits navigated European colonial interests and local conversion to Christianity through proselytizing and accommodation. Jesuit missionary efforts were pragmatically divided between disciplining Portuguese and, later on, French colonial communities and attracting converts living among regional polities under Muslim and Hindu rulers.
Ines G. Županov, Ph.D. (1991, UC Berkeley) is Senior Research Fellow in History at the CNRS (CESAH/EHESS) in Paris. She has published monographs, articles and edited volumes, including the Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits (New York: OUP, 2019).
âŽupanov is arguably todayâs foremost scholar of the Jesuit missionary and scholarly tradition in India. [...] This overview and its ample bibliography will be a useful starting point for those unfamiliar with the topics treated, as well as a resource for scholars wishing to read more widely across primary and secondary sources.â
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Harvard University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2026), pp. 119â122.
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Harvard University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2026), pp. 119â122.
Acknowledgments
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Notes on Translation and Transliteration
Abstract
Keywords
â1âIntroduction
â2âHistoriography
â3âUnder the Portuguese Padroado
â4âMissionary Frontiers
â5âFrench Jesuit Mission
â6âKnowledge
â7âSuppression and Return
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Translation and Transliteration
Abstract
Keywords
â1âIntroduction
â2âHistoriography
â3âUnder the Portuguese Padroado
â4âMissionary Frontiers
â5âFrench Jesuit Mission
â6âKnowledge
â7âSuppression and Return
Bibliography
Index
This book is of interest to students, scholars and all those passionate about early modern Jesuit missionary history in South Asia and in the wider world.