Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells a story of radical educational change. In the early nineteenth century, an imperial civil society movement promoted modern elementary 'schools for all'. This movement included British, American and German missionaries, and Indian intellectuals and social reformers. They organised themselves in non-governmental organisations, which aimed to change Indian education. Firstly, they introduced a new culture of schooling, centred on memorisation, examination, and technocratic management. Secondly, they laid the ground for the building of the colonial system of education, which substituted indigenous education. Thirdly, they broadened the social accessibility of schooling. However, for the nineteenth century reformers, education for all did not mean equal education for all: elementary schooling became a means to teach different subalterns 'their place' in colonial society. Finally, the educational movement also furthered the building of a secular 'national education' in England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108656269
• Artikelnr.: 66180936

Inhaltsangabe

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.