The English Evangelicals and the Pilgrim Tax in India, 1800–1862

Kenneth Ingham

doi:10.1017/S0022046900028426

The English Evangelicals and the Pilgrim Tax in India, 1800–1862

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Kenneth Ingham

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Lecturer in History, University College of East Africa

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The East India Company's accession to political and administrative responsibility in India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was greatly complicated by the simultaneous development of the evangelical movement in England with its missionary agents overseas. India was one of the first areas of British expansion to feel the pressure of evangelical influence upon the conduct of its government. South Africa was to take its turn soon afterwards, and in both cases the younger Charles Grant played an important part, through his tenure of the offices of President of the Board of Control and Colonial Secretary.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1952 , pp. 191 - 200

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900028426 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 193 note 1} Parl. Papers 1812–13, viii, ‘Papers relating to the Temple at Juggernaut,’ 41.

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^{page 195 note 4} Op. cit., 3rd Edition, London 1832, 120, 141–2.

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^{page 197 note 2} Ibid. 1140–1.

^{page 198 note 1} Ibid. 1181–94.

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