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caste-96	Narayan, Vivek V.	Mirrors of the Soul: Performative Egalitarianisms and Genealogies of the Human in Colonial-era Travancore, 1854-1927	2020	30	.pdf	application/pdf	16369	787	52	The doctrine of sin and practices of repentance held, for slave castes, a simultaneous acknowledgement of their interiority, agency, and capacity for transformation. We need not subscribe to the missionary’s condemning attitude towards ‘heathen’ practices of worship, nor affirm his unshakeable faith in Christianity, to learn about the spiritual lives of slave castes before Christianity, and their transformation through 132 CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 1, No. 1 colonial modernity.	cache/caste-96.pdf	txt/caste-96.txt