Publisher's Synopsis
Overlooked Voices: A Postcolonial Indian Quest is an attempt to present major engagements of the native Christians with postcolonial perspectives during the colonial period. By placing a postcolonial historiography, the author tries to bring out some significant reconstructions of history with the help of theoretical framework and hermeneutical outlook. The book defines a possible historiography for understanding colonial and postcolonial communities including the political under currents. It is argued that hermeneutics plays an important role in redefining the texts and contexts. A study that reveals the reasons behind a fresh quest in terms of postcolonial historiography is a unique feature of this book. After highlighting the background of the emergence of hermeneutical tools in the colonial and postcolonial India, the study proceeds to explain some basic features of resistance movements during the colonial period. The book proposes that women voices too played a vital role during the process in terms of initiating native leadership which led to the initial phase of indinization. It is noted that both liturgy and the Bible stood firm as tools of emancipation of the people of the margins. This study, thus, argues that native voices during the colonial period indeed paved way for the emergence of postcolonial thinking pattern in many ways.
