Nita Kumar

The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity

Essays on Education in India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume deals with multiple sites of production of education, including homes and families, neighbourhoods, cities and buildings. It also discusses sources and semantic fields such as reform efforts, texts, languages, and the media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 130mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780198074946
• ISBN-10: 0198074948
• Artikelnr.: 34741225

Autorenporträt

Nita Kumar is Brown Family Professor in South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Section I: A New Historiography for South Asia
* 1: Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of
Education and Their Pain
* 2: History and the Nation: The Learning of History in Calcutta and
Banaras
* 3: The Family-School Relationship and an Alternative History of the
Nineteenth-century Family
* 4: History at the Madrasas
* Section II: Modernities, Communities, and Genders
* 5: Languages, Families, and the Plural Learning of the
Nineteenth-century Intelligentsia
* 6: Mothers and Non-mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in
South Asia
* 7: Widows, Education, and Social Change
* 8: Making the Nation: Ansari Women in Banaras
* 9: The Nature of Reform in Modern India: A discussion of mai, a novel
by Geetanjali Shree
* 10: Learning Modernities? The Technology of Education in India
* 11: The Space of the Child: The Nation, the Neighbourhood, and the
Home
* Section III: Post-colonialism
* 12: The Scholar and Her Servants: Further Thoughts on
Post-colonialism and Education
* 13: A Post-colonial School in a Modern World
* Bibliography
* Index