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Revision as of 10:11, 27 December 2006 by Hornplease (talk | contribs) (Revert to revision 96078687 dated 2006-12-23 09:38:09 by Hornplease using popups)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Vindicated by Time - The Niyogi Committee Report On Christian Missionary Activities is a book edited by Hindu polemicist Sita Ram Goel in 1998, dealing with report on missionary activities in India that caused some controversy.
The Niyogi Committee Report
The report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee of Madhya Pradesh was published in 1956 by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and was known as the Niyogi Committee report because its Chairman was Dr. M. Bhawani Shankar Niyogi, a retired Chief Justice of the Nagpur High Court.
The Committee contacted 11,360 persons, interviewed people from 700 different villages and received 375 written statements and 385 replies from a questionnaire.
The Report stated that "there was a general complaint from the non-Christian side that the schools and hospitals were being used as means of securing converts." Goel also claims that the Report goes on to allege that Roman Catholic priests visited newborn babies to give ‘ashish’ (blessings) in the name of Jesus, took sides in litigation or domestic quarrels, kidnapped minor children and abducted women, and used the recruitment of labour for plantations in Assam or Andaman as a means of propagating the Christian faith among the ignorant and illiterate people. (Goel 1998, p.13 The report writes that someRoman Catholic missions used money-lending as a device for proselytisation. They gave loans which were then written off if the debtor became a Christian. (Goel 1998, p.115)
The supposed Report is not generally available. Goel repeats the allegations of one 'Baba' Madhavdas, who had claimed Christian missionaries "had bought" all available copies of the report and destroyed them. IT is further claimed that the report was even removed from many libraries, or borrowed and not returned. (Goel 1998)
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