Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal

ISBN-13: 9780367410131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Sutapa Dutta

Opis

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical frame of production and circulation of knowledge in the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it shaped and influenced Indian subjectivity.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I 1. Historical Insights of Education in Colonial Bengal, 1757-1911 2. Schooling the Mind – In the Metropole and the Colony PART II 3. Content and Context of Textbooks in Britain 4. Content and Context of Textbooks in Bengal PART III 5. Popular Representations of the Educated Bengali Babu. Conclusion. Bibliography.