Essay about How Chritianity Affected People in India

How did Christianity affect the people of India? Introductory Religions have been around for many thousands of years. Catholicism is one of the largest religions in the world. India is a country in Asia, and is a little bigger than Texas, but has over 2 billion people. A 2001 survey showed there to a little over â€Å"24 million Christians† in India (Christianity). This topic was appealing to me because I had lived in a boarding school in India from fourth grade to sixth grade. I had seen the effects of this religion on the people and how they reacted towards change. I had seen how people adapted to the religion and how people put down the religion turning to other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. I can relate to these people because†¦show more content†¦Background The British people had been in India since the 18th century, and had enslaved the people, but finally left in 1947. Throughout this time, the Indian people were being forced to do things that the English people did not want to do. The Indian people were enslaved by a much more powerful nation. The main religion of India is Hinduism. This religion is much more complicated than many other religions, instead of one main god there are many gods. Many things that Indian people do have been altered to mean other things (mission frontier). There are also people that are called demi gods, who somewhat have the power of god and are able to use their powers whenever they want to. An example of this is a man named khans. He had the powers of a god because he had prayed for a very long time, and had done something else that is not very important. During this time there was a god by the name of Krishna whose uncle was khans. Khans had become evil through the lust of power and Krishna had to stop him (Park). This shows just one of the many beliefs of the Hindu people. Many people had gone to India to show the people what Christianity has to offer and many people reaped the benefits. According to one Indian resident, many of the people that the Christians tried to help were the poor.