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Schooling the national imagination : education, English, and the Indian modern / Shalini Advani.
LIBRA PE1068.I4 A38 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Advani, Shalini.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching--India.
- English language.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- Language and culture.
- India.
- Education and state--India.
- Education and state.
- Nationalism--India.
- Nationalism.
- Language and culture--India.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The policy landscape. Becoming 'true' Indians : language, history, modernity ; Language and the postcolonial predicament ; Education for nationalism
- The culture of textbooks. The construction of the nation ; Normalizing the boundaries ; Engendering the nation
- Entering the school gates. Using texts : an ethnography of the English classroom ; Conclusion : nationalist pedagogy, sub-national identities, transnational desires.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198062752
- 0198062753
- OCLC:
- 430842384
- Online:
- Connect to Contributor biographical information
- Connect to Publisher description
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