Beyond Macaulay: Education in India, 1780-1860

ISBN-13: 9781032177076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Parimala V. Rao

Opis

Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of Indian education in the early colonial era — from the establishment of the Calcutta Madrasa in 1780 until the end of the East India Company’s rule and the beginning of the administration by the crown in 1860.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Methodology and Historiography 2. Indigenous Schools in India 3. The Early British and Indian Interactions 4. Educational Policy in Bengal and North India, 1810–1834 5. Brahiminisation of Education: Bombay Presidency, 1820–1839 6. Ambiguous Educational Policies: Madras Presidency, 1789–1850 7. Analysing Macaulay 8. Undermining Macaulay: The Post-Macaulayan Educational Developments, 1839–1850 9. Closing Years of the East India Company’s Rule, 1850–1860 10. Concluding Observations: Addressing the Myths. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Parimala V. Rao teaches history of education at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Twice, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, London (2011, 2014). As a historian, Rao has worked extensively on educational policies and practices of the colonial state, Indian nationalists, curriculum, girls’ education and funding of schools. She has authored Foundations of Tilak’s Nationalism: Discrimination, Education, and Hindutva (2010/2011) and edited New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education (2014/2016). She has co-edited the Encyclopaedia of Asian Educators (Routledge 2020) and a special issue on modern education in Asia for the journal Espacio, Tiempo y Educación (2018).