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It is easy to judge from outside

Continuation of commentary on Ms. Emma Rauschenbusch What Emma and her father missionary failed to recognise in their superiority-complex of the Greatness of Christianity was that the Sudras and the other castes who oppressed the Madigas, were also a poor and oppressed lot. Their Islamic and British rulers exploited them beyond all proportions. The Sudra farmers were forced to shell down 1/3 of crop they produced as tax to the Islamic and British rulers. This left very little for Sudras to pay to agricultural laborers as wages. If British and Muslim rulers robbed the landed castes, the landed class in turn squeezed the downtrodden. The illgotten wealth of the British rulers and businessmen was sent to England and N. America, which led to growth of prosperous classes in Europe and N. America. The prosperous classes pampered the missionaries with huge donations and gave them targets for conversions. For this reason only, the Boston sponsors were unhappy when the local missionary