DECONSTRUCTING THE ‘SELF’ AND EMPOWERING THE ‘OTHER’: Visionaries in Colonial South India

While contesting the normative, and existential postulates, which insinuates that self as a process of separating oneself out from the matrices of others, this study examines the relationality and interdependence of ‘self’ and the ‘other’, exploring the complexity and dynamics of missionary ‘self’ a...

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Main Author: Abraham, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2018
In: Journal of Dharma
Year: 2018, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-210
Further subjects:B Transnational
B Missionary
B Firangis
B Marginality
B Dialectical Relationship
B Inclusive Society
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