Letters To Be Cut Pasted

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<b>7. Loyal to the empire: supporters of christianism's genocide and oppression</b>

<i><b>7.1 'Good Natives': Indian christians swear love and fealty to Britannia and christianism</b></i>

http://www.hinduwisdom.info/FirstIndologists.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->... in 1853, Reverend J. Tucker addressed the Select Committee on Indian Territories, citing the progress made in native conversions through missionary schools, and through “cordial support and assistance to missionary proceedings” of civil and military government individuals. He was particularly proud to present <b>a letter written by the Tinnevelly Congregation of Indian Protestant Christians</b>. It read in part:

"To Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria,
By the Grace of God,
Queen by the Grace of God,
Queen of Great Britain and Defender of the Faith

We, native Christians … have embraced the Christian religion in number of 40,000 persons, presume to approach the feet of your Gracious Majesty, with all humility and reverence, presenting this humble memorial.

We desire to acknowledge in your Majesty’s presence that we, your humble subjects, and all our fellow-countrymen, placed by the providence of Almighty God under the <b>just and merciful rule of the English Government</b>, enjoy a happiness unknown to our forefathers in the inestimable blessings of peace. … by <b>the gratitude we feel</b>, we humbly acknowledge it to be our delightful duty, heartily and incessantly, to beseech Almighty God, the King of Kings, to “endure our Gracious Queen plenteously with heavenly gifts, to grant her health and wealth long to live, to strengthen her … and finally, after this life, attain everlasting joy and felicity.”

Incalculable are the benefits that have accrued … we who are Christians are bound to be especially grateful for having received … the privilege of ourselves learning the true religion and its sacred doctrines, and of securing it for our sons and daughters …

… Our countrymen (seeing) the vast number of boys and girls, children of Christian, Heathen, Mohammedan and Roman-catholic parents, learning gratuitously both in Tamul and English, at the expense of English missions, repeat their ancient proverbs, and say, “Instruction is indeed the opening of sightless eyeballs”…<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

A photo of an Indian family converted to christianism. The contrast with the victims of the famines is quite stunning (no wonder they went on about the 'gratitude they feel' to the 'just and merciful rule of the English Government'):

<img src='http://hinduwisdom.info/images/Christian_family.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<i>Caption: A South Indian converted Christian family.</i>
( http://hinduwisdom.info/images/Christian_family.jpg )


Also from http://hinduwisdom.info/FirstIndologists.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Every additional Christian," declared Lord Halifax, the Secretary of the State, "is an additional bond of union with this country and an additional source of strength to the Empire." "They are doing for India," as Lord Reay introducing a deputation of Indian Christians to the Prince of Wales, said "more than all those civilians, soldiers, judges and governors whom your Highness has met;" "They are the most potent force in India," declared Sir MacWorth Young.

And so the effort to civilize India, to secure it for the British Empire, to gather it up as the rich harvest for the Church proceeded as a joint endeavor: the civil servants helped by many devices, including among these their "religious neutrality": "the soldiers of the Cross" reinforced each other's efforts; and the scholars helped working to "undermine" and "encircle" and thereby prepare the way for "the soldiers of the Cross" to finally storm" the strong fortress of Brahminism".

(source: <i>Missionaries in India: Continuities, Changes, Dilemmas</i> - By Arun Shourie ASA Publications ASIN 8190019945 p.109-132).<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->