The silent rebellion : labour, caste, and education in colonial India / Arun Kumar

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Arun (Of University of Nottingham), author.

Series:

Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Education--India--History.

Working class.

Working class--India--Social conditions.

Vocational education--India--History.

Vocational education.

Education and state--India--History.

Education and state.

Caste--India--History.

Caste.

India--Social conditions.

India.

Working class--Education.

Working class--Social conditions.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"The Silent Rebellion is a history of labour subjectivity formation at the site of education and the defiance of labouring subalterns who refused to see themselves solely as labouring bodies in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on the hitherto neglected social histories of nonelite education in industrial, technical, factory, and night schools. On the one hand, it examines how elites—encompassing colonial officials, employers, and dominant castes—integrated caste labour into their modern projects of industrial and technical education, thereby reproducing labouring conditions, subjectivities, and the caste social order. On the other, it reveals how labouring subalterns—artisans, factory workers, and service-industry workers— used education to rebel against their ‘pre-destined’ labouring fate. Focusing on their demands for colonial literary education, experiences of reading, and becoming teachers, clerks, and poets, the book develops new analytical frameworks for writing nonwork histories of working lives"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

An artisanal rebellion at the Lucknow Industrial School

Education and artisans’ dreams

Craftsmen and the failure of the Industrial School

The birth of a technical school

Mill employers and the factory schools

Dreams of the night and night schools

Nonwork time and welfare capitalism

Sweated knowledge and the politics of reading

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core , viewed August 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Kumar, Arun (Of University of Nottingham) Silent rebellion

ISBN:

9781009885485

1009885480

9781009885478

1009885472

OCLC:

1584648035

Publisher Number:

CIPO000406843

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license