Missionaries singled out Muslims, not Hindus, as stubbornly resistant to conversion.

Evidence

Although Anglican missionary James Long referred in 1875 to both “the Brahmanical pride and Moslem arrogance” that consigned Bengali children “to the dungeons of ignorance and degradation,” 66 most missionaries equated only Muslims with stubbornness and resistance. Notably, Long did not refer to “Hindu pride” as an obstacle to conversion, indicating that his frustration extended only to Brahmans, not all Hindus. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 161

Categorization

• CANDY: The telling asymmetry — missionaries frustrated with only Brahmans still wouldn’t call it ‘Hindu pride’ while freely branding all Muslims with ‘Moslem arrogance’ — is a small sharp observation.