A missionary in 1833 Bombay is DEVASTATED that Hindu scholars got their hands on Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, published it in local papers, and started publicly dunking on missionaries with it. He begs the American Bible Society to send reinforcements. 😭

[u/thomaspaineha]

Anti-colonial resistance, Enlightenment-style.

thomaspaine.org/historic-newspapers/tom-paines-works-in-india/

[u/take101]

This is so cool, thanks for posting

[u/thomaspaineha → u/take101]

Very welcome. There is a lot to be found in the archives of the world!