Geoffrey A. Oddie

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney

He has lectured in history in the same department since 1964, and has also been a Visiting Professor at the United Theological College, Bangalore (2003). Dr Oddie was first published in 1957. Since then he has authored, edited or contributed to a score of books on various aspects of religion in South Asia, with a focus on Hinduism and missionary Christianity in colonial and pre-colonial times. His books include Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism. James Long of Bengal: 1814–87 (1998); Religious Conversion Movements in South Asia: Continuities and Change (edited, 1997); Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook-swinging and Its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800–1894 (1995); and Social Protest in India: British Protestant Missionaries and Social Reforms, 1850–1900 (1979).