Gods, Guns and MissionariesAn ambitious and engaging history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India. When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan messa worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites, and fed children to crocodiles. But it