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

ISBN-13: 9781108498333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 386 str.

German Göttingen Jana Tschurenev (Georg-August-Universität

Opis

In the nineteenth century, Indian education underwent a radical transformation. Indigenous education was substituted by the colonial education system. This 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.

Spis treści

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.