LankaWeb – Hate speech in Missionary School magazines directed against Dharmic religions and cultural practices generated a backlash in the form of a Buddhist and Hindu Revival in both India and Sri Lanka

AI Overview During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Christian missionary school magazines and associated religious periodicals in British-ruled Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and India served as primary vehicles for colonial evangelism. Driven by the prevailing theological belief that non-Christian religions were spiritually illegitimate, these publications frequently utilized polemical language—which would be characterized as religious hate […]