Figure 1.--This is a Christian celebration in Krishnarajapuram, a suburb of Bangalore, Karnataka. Southwestrn India is one of the regions in which Chridtianity is strongest. We see the local Catholic congregation having a procession in the feast of Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8th). The altar boys wear red cassocks and white surplices, as in Europe, but they go barefoot.

The destribution of Christians in India is highly regional. Regional trends in the distribution of Christianity are in part due to the pattern of colonialism in India. This you have many Roman Catholics in Goa which was a long-term Portuguese colony. Chritianity grew in the northeast suring the late-19th century. This included the Seven Sister State where the Khasis, Mizos, and the Nagas showed great interest in Christianity. In modern India, Christiaity is strongest in the northeast and in the southwestern states (Kerala and Goa). The population of Kerala is about 15 percent Christian and Kerala about 15 percent. Through central India, the percentage of Christains is less than 1 percent, slightly higher along the eastern coast states. More than half of all Indian Christians live in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (south India) and Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya (northeast India).

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