Christian Subversion And Missionary Activities - 5

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I personally belive that the conversions is a sustained effort since 1950 and it did not start only in the last decade. Multiplication did occur rapidly as the second and third generation came into picture.

For example, Nagaland might have turned to Christian majority between 1975 - 1995 period. I am interested in analyzing Orissa and AP trends by years.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Of course it didn't start recently.

I don't know if u r aware but check out:

"The Niyogi Committee Report
On Christian Missionary Activities

http://voiceofdharma.com/books/ncr/ "

It was first published way back in 1956.

Here is something about Nagaland and North East from the above book:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There were good grounds for this optimism.  Conversions to Christianity were on the increase as was soon indicated by the Census of 1971. �In India as a whole,� wrote a Christian historian, F.S. Downs, �the Christian population increased by 64.9% between 1951 and 1971.  This may be compared with a general population increase of 51.7% during the same period.  In North East India the Christian population increased by 171.1% during the same period, compared with a general population growth in that region of 116.5%. Even these figures do not give the full picture because in 1971, 74.7% of the total North East India population was in Assam where the growth of the Christian community is the lowest.  In the 1961-71 decade alone the growth of the Christian community in states and territories other than Assam was as follows:
 

State Percentage Growth of Christians Percentage Growth of General Population
Nagaland 76.29% 39.88%
Meghalaya 75.43% 31.55%
Manipur 83.66% 37.33%
Tripura 56.52% 36.28%


In the 1951-1971 period, the Christian growth in Nagaland was 251.6%, and in Tripura 298.6%� According to the Census of 1901 Christians in the North East constituted 1.23% of the whole, by 1951 the proportion was 7.8% and in 1971, 12.5%. North East India now had 39.8% of the non-southern Christian population.�14


Downs has not given figures for Mizoram, the Lushai Hills District of Assam, which was raised to the status of a State in 1987.  The Christian population in this area had risen from 0.05% of the total population in 1901 to 80.31 % in 1951 due to the efforts of Protestant missions.  In 1971, Christianity came to claim 86.09%. As against the general growth rate of 34.69% between 1951 and 1961 and 24.69 percent between 1961 and 1971, the growth rate of Christian population had been 46% and 25% for the two decades respectively.15

http://voiceofdharma.com/books/ncr/2one.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I will try get a copy of that book about religious demography of India.