He was a great opponent of Sankaracharya’s. At a religious level, Christian and Hindu communities increasingly realise that the other tradition can provide a positive resource for spiritual practice through prayer, reflection, and festive celebration, while theologians have fruitfully explored and shared insights for more than a century. The founder of the sect is Madhvacharya, otherwise called Ananda Tirtha and Purna-Prajna. Thus as traditions of thought, Christianity and Hinduism have shared a history of development through mutual influence. At the same time, Christians in India learned about Hinduism, and European thought became increasingly influenced by certain Hindu ideas and texts. Many Hindus in colonial India, such as Swami Vivekananda and Ram Mohan Roy, reflected on Christianity whilst actively developing their own interpretations of Hindu tradition. There has been a significant relationship between Hinduism and Christianity at the level of religion and philosophy, from the earliest phases and the modern period. Brahmo Samajists denied that any scripture could enjoy the status of ultimate authority transcending human reason and conscience. He adapted Hindu style and terminology purely as a method of approach and not for any real admiration for the Hindu tradition. Robert de Nobili, systematically, made some efforts to interact with Hindu people. The Western Colonial period signifies the beginning of a new era in Hindu-Christian relationships.
The impact of Christianity on Hinduism and vice versa was moreover silent till the beginning of the nineteenth century. Christians and Hindus have interacted for over 2000 years in the Indian sub-continent.
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