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Inspired by the Brunei thread...

In general, colonial empires were pretty religiously tolerant places, and tended not to repress those of differing religions to the colonial masters. My question is, what if colonialists, in this case the British in India, had decided it was worthwhile to put serious efforts into Christianising the peoples of the subcontinent?

I'm guessing that a programme of Christianising would be a difficult one, but history does record conversions happening from a small, foreign elite downwards- notably in the Islamic world in the eighth and ninth centuries, so for this reason, I don't think it's an entirely ASB idea for it to be pulled off. Whether the British would want to try is quite another matter though, I guess...

So, three questions. Why would the British want to do it, how and when would they do it (financial incentives, as in the Islamic world, perhaps?), and how long would it take?

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