Sanjay Seth

Subject Lessons

The Western Education of Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of how modern, Western knowledge came to be disseminated in India and came to assume its current status as the obvious, and almost the only, mode of knowing about India; further, and more dubiously, the work examines whether this knowledge is in f

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340867
• ISBN-10: 0822340860
• Artikelnr.: 22877267

Autorenporträt

Sanjay Seth

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1: Subject to Pedagogy
1. Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference
17
2. Diagnosing Moral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object 47
3. Which Past? Whose History? 79
Part II: Modern Knowledge, Modern Nation
4. Governmentality and Identity: Constituting the “Backward but Proud
Muslim” 109
5. Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education 129
6. Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination 159
Epilogue: Knowing Modernity, Being Modern 183
Notes 197
Bibliography 235
Index 259