Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India

Herausgeber: Tschurenev, Jana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the nineteenth century, Indian education underwent a radical transformation. Indigenous education was substituted by the colonial education system. The book focuses on an imperial civil society movement which initiated these processes. It offers a new, interaction-centred, connected history perspective on the making of colonial schooling in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498333
• ISBN-10: 1108498337
• Artikelnr.: 56784255

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: empire civil society, and educational transformation in India; 1. A colonial experiment in education, Madras, 1789
1796; 2. Education of the poor, 1805
1813; 3. Missionaries, empire, and the cause of universal education, 1792
1824; 4. Race, class, and gender: the social agenda of education, 1809
1830; 5. Rules and numbers: transforming rural education, 1814
1830; 6. Intellectual conquest: education societies, 'useful knowledge', and the Bengal Renaissance, 1817
1854; 7. Civil society, government, and educational institutional-building, Bombay presidency, 1819
1882; 8. Teaching the marginalized: universal education and the politics of inequality, 1789
1937; Conclusion: the emergence of public elementary schooling in an imperial frame; Bibliography; Index.