Empire, Civil Society, and the Beginnings of Colonial Education in India - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108498337 ISBN 13: 9781108498333

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

In the nineteenth century, Indian education underwent a radical transformation. Indigenous education was substituted by the colonial education system. This book focuses on an imperial civil society movement which initiated these processes. It offers a new, interaction-centred, connected history perspective on the making of colonial schooling in India.

About the Author:

Jana Tschurenev is Research Fellow at the International Research Centre 'Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History', in Berlin. Her research interests include the history of education, comparative education, global history, and women's and gender history. She has published in several educational journals including Paedagogica Historica and the German Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, has co-edited a volume on the global history of moral reform movements entitled Biopolitik und Sittlichkeitsreform (2014), and a volume on the History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1108498337
• ISBN 13: 9781108498333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386