Religious Conversion In India: More Smoke Than Fire Now? – OpEd

By Anosh Malekar

(UCA News) -- An upper-caste Hindu boy, Narayan Sesadri Parlikar, joined a school run by the Church of Scotland in Bombay way back in 1838. Five years later in 1843, he converted to become a Christian.

The Bombay Courier, the leading English daily of the time, published a column-length story on Parlikar’s...