Introduction - Laudation - Devotional Christianity and Pre-Indology in early eighteenth-century Kerala: Johann Ernst Hanxleden, S.J., alias Arnos Padiri, scholar and poet - the Emergence of Resistant Judaism in colonial Bombay: Christian missionaries, Cochin Jews, and the Hebraization of India's Bene Israel Jews, 1738-1905 -- "...But knows not of his need of the atonement": Rammohun Roy's selective construction of Christianity in his precepts of Jesus and dispute about "True Christianity" in early nineteenth-century Calcutta - The Scottish "Discovery" of Jainism in Nineteenth-Century Bombay - The authors