Basel Mission Between Switzerland, Germany and South India

Dr. Mukesh Kumar is an SNSF Senior Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Indian Studies, University of Zurich. He holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney and has previously been recipients of prestigious fellowships at ETH Zurich and Heidelberg University. His recent book, Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint (Cambridge University Press, 2024), examines shared religious cultures in North India.Amal Shahid is a Swiss National Science Foundation Senior Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne. She completed a PhD in International History from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, which won the Pierre du Bois Prize 2023. Her research interests are history of imperialism and colonialism, global history, labour, and political economy.Ella Daisy Müller is a doctoral student and research assistant at ETH Zurich, working on the Basel Mission's engagement with natural history and sciences in South India and West Africa. She studied History, Sociology and Digital Humanities at the Universities of Constance, Bologna, Zurich and Basel and holds a teaching diploma for upper secondary teaching. Her research interests lie in the histories of mission, science and labour as well as transimperial histories.

• PART 1: Mission and Its Historiography 1: Introduction: The Basel Mission in nineteenth century South India. - Amal Shahid, Ella Müller, Mukesh Kumar2: Interconnected and multifaceted approaches to Protestant mission histories. - Felicity Jensz;PART 2: Basel Mission in India and Europe3. Christianity for Industry and Industry for Christianity: The Basel Mission in Europe and India, c. 1850-1900 - Bernhard C. Schär4: Missions as Terrains of Exchange? The Kanarese Evangelical Mission in the Interwar Years (1918–1928) - Philippe BornetPART 3: Basel Mission and Caste5. Social Engineering in the Praxis of Basel Mission - Jaiprakash Raghaviah6. A Photographic Perspective on Recasting the Caste Individuals: An Exploration of Basel Mission's Industries in Malabar - Chinjumol KR;PART 4: Gender and the Basel Mission7: Translating Matriliny through the Interpretative Structures of  Colonial/Missionary Patriarchy - Parinitha Shetty8: "So much depends on the proper preparation of the Bible Women" – The training practice of Bible Women of the Basel (Women's) Mission between 1880-1940 in South India - Sandra LanghopPART 5: The Materialities of Basel Mission9: The Basel Mission collection from India: Colonial entanglements, missionary interpretation and local agency - Isabella Bozsa10: Material Manifestations: Basel Mission Terracotta Tiles and Factories of Mangalore - Priya Joseph11: Afterword: Entangling Histories, Unsettling Legacies - Linda Maria Ratschiller Nasim