Following Jesus in the Hindu context

the long version

Narayan Vaman Tilak was raised in western India in a Brahmin family, as a Hindu of the highest caste. He was an ardent nationalist and gifted poet. Baptized in 1895, he remains one of the most highly placed Hindu leaders ever to turn to faith in Christ. Tilak was never fully at home in westernized systems of church and mission life in India. He was a pioneer in adapting Hindu forms for the expression of biblical faith. After 21 years in missio service, Tilak resigned in 1917 and entered the fourth stage of traditional Brahmin life, sannyasa or renunciation. In this last brief stage of his life Tilak saw himself as an apostle to India and sought to gather a fellowship of both baptized and unbaptized disciples of Jesus. This book tells Tilak's story as one of the outstanding pioneers of Protestant mission history. His life and ministry contain critically important insights for all students of the interaction between Christianity and other religions, particularly between biblical and Hindu faiths. - from book blurb.