Carpenters and Kings

<p>Jordanus Catalani the first bishop of the Church of Rome in India introduced the northern part of the subcontinent to his readers in fourteenth-century Europe in this manner. Two hundred years before the advent of Vasco da Gama Western Christianity-which comprises the Catholic Church the Anglican Communion and Protestant denominations today-had already arrived in India finding among its diverse people and faiths the Church of the East already at home since the beginning of Christianity. <p/>This is an account of how global events including the Crusades and the Mongol conquests came together to bring Western Christianity to India. <p/>A gripping narrative of two diagonally opposite impulses in Christianity: of humble scholars trying to live the Christian ideal and of ambitious ecclesiastical empire-builders with more earthly goals. <p/><i>Carpenters and Kings</i> is a tale of Christianity and equally a glimpse of the India which has always existed: a multicultural land where every faith has found a home through the centuries.</p>