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YMCA IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA modernization, philanthropy and american soft power in south asia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fischer-Tiné, Harald.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives in South Asian history
- Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young Men's Christian Association (India).
- India--Church history.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [S.l.] : BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, 2022.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Propagating reform: Colonial Administrators, Nationalists, Religious organizations and their agendas in South Asia and beyond (c. 1880-1914)
- 2. 'Make them pure, fit and brotherly!': Philanthropic and Humanitarian Initiatives (1908-1945)
- 3. 'The Gospel of Rural Reconstruction': Agricultural Development Programs and their Transnational Circulation (1916-1957)
- 4. 'Fitness for Modernity': Sports and Physical Education Schemes (1908-1942)
- 5. 'One Fifth of the World's Boyhood': American Boyology and the Indian YMCA's work with early Adolescents
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9781350275300
- 1350275301
- 9781350280465
- 1350280461
- Publisher Number:
- 99992732045
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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