02-07-2006, 09:15 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->but surely, bengal, audh, kawnpore, bombay presidency etc experienced a greater dose of the west than the south, (save madras presidency). yet christianiyty never took root there, unless you count the refugee destitutes that mother teresa feasted upon. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bombay presidency again had reform movements, one of them was "Prarthana Samaj" and the Arya Samaj was also present in Audh and other areas, just because its strongest area was Punjab does not mean it was confined to Punjab, it had quite a large following and was influential all over North India and several prominent freedom fighters were Arya Samajis, Ram Prasad Bismil was from U.P and he was an orthodox Arya Samajist. Also the 2001 census records that in Andhra Christians are 1.6% and in Karnataka they are 1.9% and in West Bengal they are 0.6%, the difference is not very high and Kerala always had a xtian population since the Syrian Xtians came and large scale conversions ceased by 1950's, that is why in Kerala they are stagnant at 19%, the only Southern state where the xtian population has grown explosively is Tamil Nadu where they are 6.1%.
Bombay presidency again had reform movements, one of them was "Prarthana Samaj" and the Arya Samaj was also present in Audh and other areas, just because its strongest area was Punjab does not mean it was confined to Punjab, it had quite a large following and was influential all over North India and several prominent freedom fighters were Arya Samajis, Ram Prasad Bismil was from U.P and he was an orthodox Arya Samajist. Also the 2001 census records that in Andhra Christians are 1.6% and in Karnataka they are 1.9% and in West Bengal they are 0.6%, the difference is not very high and Kerala always had a xtian population since the Syrian Xtians came and large scale conversions ceased by 1950's, that is why in Kerala they are stagnant at 19%, the only Southern state where the xtian population has grown explosively is Tamil Nadu where they are 6.1%.