The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodation, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India, written by Ananya Chakravarti.

"This book", Chakravarti writes, 'places the relationship between Church and empire at its centre, in the hopes of decolonizing our understanding of both' (4). To great effect, Chakravarti pairs each Indian missionary with a Brazilian counterpart working in the same era in order to highlight the different dynamics at play in these two nodes of Portuguese empire. [Extracted from the article]

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