The Economics of Indian Christianity
FCRA-Induced Bankruptcy? Who Owns What Foreign Money Built
Foreign money. Indian institutions. A new law. Who bears the economic cost? India's Christian schools, hospitals, charities, missions and places of worship are more than religious institutions. They are employers, service networks, assets and communities. The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 raises a difficult question: what happens when foreign-contribution-linked assets outlive the funding that helped create them? This evidence-led investigation follows the rupee from receipt to asset. It separates historical foreign seed capital from decades of later Indian accretion; examines mission hospitals, education, welfare, jobs and institutional property; tests the economic cost of regulation against the public benefit claimed for it; and confronts the disputes around conversion, conscience, minority rights, sovereignty and civil society. Rather than treating allegation as fact or official assurance as proof, Jacob Francis grades every claim as established fact, not established, official position, criticism or unresolved — and says so plainly where the record settles nothing at all. At its legal-status date of 6 September 2026 the Amendment Bill remains under parliamentary consideration and is not enacted law; the Amendment Rules, 2026, notified on 22 June 2026, are in force. The book keeps the two apart throughout, and closes with a research register naming exactly what a later reader must re-verify. A rigorous public-interest investigation for readers who want evidence rather than slogans, and economic reasoning rather than assumption.
- Follows the rupee from receipt to asset, before and after FCRA
- The education, healthcare, welfare and jobs footprint, counted
- The 2026 Amendment Bill clause by clause — and what it would change
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