![]() ![]() At the same time this paper draws on the idea of connected histories, and it will attempt to present an interconnected and interwoven mosaic of the restored Society of Jesus in India without trying to reconcile regional differences and anomalies. Jesuits were working in different mission areas in India and their mission methods and apostolic choices differed according to the directives from their respective mother provinces and the specific local contexts. Similarly, this is a historiographical account not of a uniform, monolithic Society of Jesus in India but rather of the diverse and localized Jesuit missions and provinces that emerged in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. ![]() At the outset it must be mentioned that there is no pan-Indian history of the Jesuits after 1814, but there are several regional histories of Jesuits working in different parts of India, leading to a plurality of historical discourses on Jesuits. ![]() It is meant to guide scholars who want to work on the history of the Jesuits in India after 1814, the year in which the Society of Jesus was restored. To write an overview of the historiography of the restored Society of Jesus in India initially appeared a herculean task, not least because of the paucity of historical sources. ![]()
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