Publisher's Synopsis
This book shows how churches in Calcutta are the inseparable parts of the metropolitan culture of the city. Though Christianity is an apostolic in religion south India, in Calcutta -- or better to say -- in the rest of the country, it was the off shoot of colonial expansion of the European powers. Its path was first shown by the Portuguese power. This way, with the British settlement in Calcutta, Christian Church first comes into being from the employee and traders of East India Company to look after their religious interests.