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A Christian modernity
for tribal India
D AV I D H A R D I M A N
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Missionaries
and their medicine
A Christian modernity
for tribal India
David Hardiman
MANCHESTER
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manchester
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asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction page 1
2 The Bhils 19
3 The mission to the Bhils 51
4 The great famine 73
5 The conversion of the Bhagats 83
6 Christian healing 105
7 Fighting demons 123
8 Woman’s work for woman 139
9 A little empire 147
10 Medicine on a shoestring and a prayer 165
11 A mission for a postcolonial era 178
12 Medical modernity 189
13 Closure 225
14 Conclusion: mission medicine and Bhil modernity 235
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I L L U S T R AT I O N S
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The research on which this book has been based was funded initially by
the Wellcome Trust through a two-year Research Fellowship. Further
research and writing were carried out with the help of a grant from the
Economic and Social Research Council. The archival research was
greatly facilitated by the excellent facilities and help that were provided
for me by the archivists and librarians in the Special Collections room
at the University of Birmingham Library and the Church Missionary
Society (CMS) library at Partnership House in London. At the latter, I
would like to thank in particular Colin Rowe, Elizabeth Williams and
Ken Osborne. In addition, I made use of the holdings of the Oriental and
India Office Library and the British Library in London, the National
Archives of India, New Delhi, the Maharashtra State Archives,
Mumbai, and the Gujarat State Archives, Vadodara. Nicholas Johnson
and Hilary Griffiths were particularly generous in not only granting me
access to the papers of their father, the Reverend Paul Johnson, but also
allowing me to borrow them for a time. In addition, they supplied me
with a copy of a dissertation on Margaret Johnson by Hilary’s daughter,
Rachel Mash, and have allowed me to reproduce three photographs
from their family collection. The Bishop of Gujarat, Vinod Malaviya,
showed similar generosity in allowing me to photocopy records that he
holds. I was able to obtain an almost full set of the Bhil Mission Report
in part from the CMS archives in Birmingham (earlier years), and in part
from copies held by Bishop Malaviya, supplemented by copies held by
Nicholas Johnson and Hilary Griffiths. For help in the research in India,
I would like to thank Kanu Bhavsar and Babulal Damor for accompa-
nying me to the Bhil villages of Mewar and Sabarkantha to conduct
interviews. Raj Kumar Hans gave me invaluable help in Vadodara. For
hospitality, I would like in particular to thank Nadir, Robyn, Perin,
Kate and Amy Bharucha in Mumbai, and Makrand and Shirin Mehta in
Ahmedabad. For their very helpful comments on the manuscript,
I am indebted to David Arnold, Rosemary Fitzgerald, Sarah Hodges,
Colin Jones, Gyan Pandey, Gauri Raje and the anonymous readers for
Manchester University Press.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, the notion of Christ as the
‘Great Physician’ became increasingly prominent in missionary dis-
course and its iconic representations. As Western medicine, supposedly
emblematic of the onward march of the rational, aspired to ever higher
status, missionaries increasingly saw themselves as healers of bodies as
well as savers of souls. David Livingstone was one of the most notable
precursors in this: many missionaries (perhaps particularly Scottish
ones) subsequently sought to combine medical with theological quali-
fications, ambitiously pursuing a sort of parallel ordination in both
spheres. Nevertheless, attitudes towards the role of medicine in mis-
sionary endeavour were complex and dynamic, as David Hardiman
demonstrates here.
This study examines a relatively long period in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries in a restricted geographical sphere in India. It also
analyses the reactions of one so-called ‘tribal’ people, the Bhils, to the
missionary and medical ambitions of the Church Missionary Society in
their land. This approach offers highly rewarding results: we are able to
follow the intertwining of missionary and medical, administrative and
military developments in this region of the subcontinent. We are also
given the opportunity to consider in detail the ways in which the Bhils
responded to, resisted, or sought relief in these religious, medical and
imperial phenomena appearing in their area. All of this is charted
through the period of the so-called high noon of empire, the emergence
of nationalist resistance, violent and non-violent, the era of imperial
weakening induced by European warfare, and the post-independence
years. We follow the mission and its hospital through a process of rise
and fall, indigenisation and dispersal. Ironically, early medical arrange-
ments were primitive and expertise was often slight; but as profession-
alisation increased (along with the significant role of women), political
and social weakness became more pronounced.
Many other issues are illuminated through this useful focus: the
incorporation of the Bhils into the imperial military establishment
through the formation of the Bhil Corps and the manner in which this
could both help and hinder missionary objectives; the foundation of
schools and the development of education as another ‘social’ arm of
missionary ambitions; the articulation of complex gendered relation-
ships between traditional and mission societies; and the role of mis-
sionaries in famine relief. Missionaries were of course confronting
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indigenous belief systems and concepts of illness and cure. They often
saw these as inimical to their ‘modern’ methods, yet they invariably
placed as much reliance on the ‘supernatural’ as their ‘charges’ and
patients did. Pre-operative prayers were common; praying for ‘miracle
cures’ sometimes seemed to have effect. Bhils often found missionary
doctors’ activities appealing precisely because they seemed to have a
comprehensible spiritual content. Far from the missionaries counter-
posing two Manichaean systems, as they usually imagined they were
doing, the fact was that a greater degree of syncretism was occurring
than they would have been prepared to acknowledge. The Bhils were
often responding to Western medicine and the religious message that
lay behind it in this context by indigenising it and consequently ren-
dering it more comprehensible.
In these and in many other ways, David Hardiman’s book offers
insights into issues of imperial and missionary activity that are applic-
able to many other parts of India and elsewhere in the world. We are
given opportunities to consider the relationship between missionaries
and imperialism, the interaction of recruitment and fundraising in the
imperial metropole and activities in the Indian ‘empire’, the changing
educational attainments and roles of missionaries and medics, the sig-
nificance of women, married and single, and their increasingly signifi-
cant instrumentality. We are also presented with the realities of social,
economic and political hierarchies in India and the ways in which the
British sought to modify these. And all of this is related to theoretical
positions and a wider historiography. This constitutes a rewarding
study for all those interested in the relationships among missionary
endeavour, indigenous responses and imperial rule.
John M. MacKenzie
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A B B R E V I AT I O N S
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G L O S S A RY
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G L O S S A RY
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