JAMMU & KASHMIR

1 Kashmir has become an international tragedy.

2 Kashmir is spiritually poverty-stricken

3 Outreach has always been limited, and few Christian workers have been indigenous to the state

4 Unreached peoples

a) Kashmiri Muslims who have become more militant for their faith

b) Tibetan Buddhists

c) The high-caste Brahmin Pandits of Kashmir

5 Christian radio – TWR broadcast five times a week in Kashmiri

KARNATAKA

1 Karnataka is South India's most spiritually needy state.

2 Bangalore is India's 'Silicon City' and is also the Indian headquarters for many Christian churches, Indian missions and international agencies

3 The less evangelized – almost all of Karnataka's peoples are unreached

a) The Lingayats, predominantly in the north, prominent in society and politics, but staunchly Hindu;

b) The Adi Karnataka are the original inhabitants

c) The Devadasis are girls forced into temple prostitution

d) The Banjara have begun to respond

Of Karnataka's 2,479 pincode areas, 80% had no resident Christian worker in 1998

KERALA

1 The Syrian Christians, with links to the Syrian Jacobite Church, are direct descendants of those evangelized by the Apostle Thomas.

2 Kerala has numerous Protestant denominations and evangelistic agencies

3 Unreached peoples

a) Of the 35 small tribal groups only three or four have significant Christian groups

b) The Malabar Muslims, or Mappila, are numerous in the north of Kerala and number 7 million

c) Of the higher castes and 41 Dalit groups of Hindus, there have been people movements to Christianity from among only six or seven of the latter

d) Christian work is unevenly distributed

4 Christian media have done much to generate missions interest and also TV and radio programmes to the wider population have generated a wide response (GFA)

Geography - Jammu & Kashmir

Area 222,000 sq.km.

Population 9,400,000

Capital Srinagar 800,000.

Peoples - Jammu & Kashmir

240.

Main groups Kashmiri Muslim 6.8m; Kashmiri Hindu 3m; Mangrik 926,000; Brahmin/Pandit 716,000;

SC (17) 9.3%.

ST (6) 7%.

Religion - Jammu & Kashmir

Muslim 64.2%; Hindu 32.2%; Sikh 2.2%; Buddhist 1.2%;

Geography - Karnataka

Area 192,000 sq.km.

Population 53,500,000

Capital Bangalore 5,400,000.

Peoples - Karnataka

224 (174 speaking Kannada).

Main groups (143) Lingayat 7m; Vakkaliga 6.1m; Dekkani (Mus) 5.7m; Bedar 2.3m; Brahmin 2.3m;

SC (100) 16.4%.

ST (32) 4.3%.

Languages 19. Kannada 66%, many dialects; Urdu 9.5%,

Religion - Karnataka

Hindu 85.4%; Muslim 11.6%; Christian 2.1%; Jain 0.8%.

Geography - Kerala

Area 39,000 sq.km.

Population 33,000,000

Capital Trivandrum 1,050,000.

Peoples - Kerala

194.

Main groups Malabar/Mappila Muslims 8.5m; Viswakarma 1m; Brahmin 604,000; Nair/Nayar 597,000;

SC (68) 9.9%

ST (37) 1.1%

Languages Malayali (Malayalam) 96%; Tamil 2.3%.

Religion - Kerala

Hindu 57.7%; Muslim 23%; Christian 19.3%

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