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There are many in Kerala.
It's the only state with a large Christian minority.
Despite a long history of evangelization,
it's obvious that Christianity failed in India.
The Portuguese, fanatic converters, had little impact here,
despite St. Francis Xavier's visit to Goa.
The English, too clever to attack Hinduism,
severely limited missionary efforts at conversion.
The rare conversions occurred at the extreme ends of the caste system:
Among Brahmans and Untouchables.
Indians who become Christians don't give up the caste hierarchies.
Until the beginning of the century, a church in Madras
was divided its entire length by a wall
so Catholics of the higher castes could worship
without being tainted by the Catholic Untouchables.
Indian Christians are fanatical believers,
but they seemed uncomfortable, as if laboring under an inferiority complex
in relation to both Hindus and Europeans,
as if torn between two cultures, their identity lost.
This is a young Syriac Christian priest.
According to tradition, the Syriac church of Kerala was founded
by St. Thomas the Apostle when he landed at Cranganore in 52 A.D.
And converted many Brahmans.
The Christians of Kerala, violently anti-Communist,
loyally support the Congress Party.