The advent and spread of Christianity in the Punjab would have been a limited affair but for the "dalits", the depressed classes of the Punjab. The present Christian community is the result of the mass movement and efforts of the missionaries in the Punjab. The paper also examines the eyewitness accounts of the missionaries which are helpful in demystifying the myth of "equality among the Sikhs". These accounts also reinforce our understanding of the status of Mazhabi Sikhs as a lower caste among the Sikhs. Using the terms, "foreign enclaves" and "ritually neutral area" from Milton Singer's classic study, When a Great Tradition Modernizes, the author has tried to demonstrate the processes of isolation, slow acceptance, and incorporation of the converts.
K. Lalita and Deepa Dhanraj, Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak about Post-conflict Life. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2016, 434 pp. (hardback), ISBN 978-81-250-6415-2.
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