The Works of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan Comprising his Christian Research in Asia
Buchanan guides readers through the diverse spiritual landscape of the British colonial era. He documents the ancient Syrian Christian churches of Malabar, encounters isolated communities of both "White" and "Black" Jews in Cochin, and critiques the local religious practices he witnesses. Beyond simple observations, the text serves as an aggressive, influential call to action, advocating for the translation of the Bible into various Oriental languages and lobbying for the formal entry of British missionaries into India. Written with an earnest, urgent evangelical zeal, it stands as a pivotal historical artifact that deeply shaped Western perceptions of the East and ignited the early 19th-century American and British global missionary movements.