Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Merchandise, Moralities, and Poetics of Aryans, Dravidians, and Israelites 13
5. 2. Colonial Bureaucrats and the Search for Older Testaments 50
6. 3. Enlisting Christian Texts for Protest in the Empire 84
7. 4. A Buddhist Ascetic and His Maverick Misreadings of the Bible 118
8. 5. Paul the Roman in Asia 152
9. 6. Exegesis in Eastern Climes 190
10. 7. Between the Lines of Asian Fiction 224
11. Conclusion 258
12. Notes 265
13. Acknowledgments 291
14. Index of Scriptural References 293
15. General Index 297