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Subject lessons : the Western education of colonial India / Sanjay Seth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seth, Sanjay, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--India--Western influences--History--19th century.
- Education.
- Education and state--India--History--19th century.
- Education and state.
- Nationalism and education--India--History--20th century.
- Nationalism and education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Subject to Pedagogy; Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference; Diagnosing Moral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object; Which Past? Whose History?; Part II: Modern Knowledge, Modern Nation; Governmentality and Identity: Constituting the ''Backward but Proud Muslim''; Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education; Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination; Epilogue:Knowing Modernity, Being Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923678
- 9780822340867
- 0822340860
- 9781282923676
- 1282923676
- OCLC:
- 271168184
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