Medieval Christian visitors to India
Brown, L. W. The Indian Christians of St. Thomas ( l956)11-39, 92-108.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christianity in India ( l984) 68-73.
Tisserant, Eugene Cardinal. Early Christianity in India . Trans. E. R. Hambye. ( l957)19-23.
Portuguese in India
Bayly, Susan. Saints, Goddesses and Kings : Muslims and Christians in South Indian society 1700-1900 (1989) 257-86.
Boxer, C. R. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire (1969) 65-80.
Brown, L. W., 81-5.
Hough, James. History of Christianity in India . 4 vols. (1839) vol. l (238-462) and vol. 2.
Neill, 84-98, 111-65, 191-252;
Tisserant, 27-84.
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Christian monks visiting India
Brown, 8l-5;
Neill, 71-83.
"Nay, they believe St. Thomas to be greater than Christ!"
Brown, 83.
"Nay, they believe St. Thomas the great to be Christ!"
Neill, 73.
"These Nestorians are scattered all over India. . ."
Brown, 84.
Marco Polo
Brown, 82;
Neill, 75-7;
Henry Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo (3rd ed.,
l903. Reprint, 1986) vol. 2, 316-8.
"I should tell you that nothing on earth. . . ."
Yule, vol. 2, 341.
Last Nestorian bishops from Mesopotamia
Brown, 14;
Neill, 193-95;
Tisserant, 24-26.
"If there were not merchants? . . ."
Boxer, 65.
Portuguese arrival and early activity in India
Boxer, 39-42;
Brown, 17-26;
Neill, 11-23, 195-203;
Tisserant, 19-23.
"There are about 30,000 families of Christians . . ."
Brown, 17;
Neill, 191.
Mar Jacob
Brown, 15, 18-20;
Neill, 199-200;
Tisserant, 31-32.
European missionary activity in later 16th century
Boxer, 66-80;
Brown;
Neill.
Orphaned children
Boxer, 74-76;
Neill, 226.
"The rigor of mercy."
Neill, 131, 224-8.
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