Education in Colonial India

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  • ISBN 9788173049873
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 732g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
  • Publication City/Country: IN
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Questions like what to teach, how to teach and whom to teach have been central to debates on education in India. Colonialism has left several facts and questions open, which can be interpreted in multiple ways.

The essays collected in this volume try to address some of the issues and developments in the making of an inclusive knowledge society in colonial India, and the transmission of knowledge through agents and institutions of education in modern India from a historical perspective.

The volume traces the growth of knowledge in India in modern times and its conflict with the existing societal and religious expectations, as also of the conflict between individual and institutional ideas. It has also attempted to address the issue of social exclusion – be it sectional, regional or gender oriented. Despite apparent diversity and exclusivity of the themes they are interwoven and reflect an overarching interest in broader issues, with the primary focus being on growth of a new system of education in modern India.
Deepak Kumar taught history of education at Zakir Husain Centre for Education Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He is known for his book Sciences and the Raj (2nd edition 2006). He convened and presided over the International Association of Historians of Asia Conference in 2008.

Joseph Bora coordinates the research programme of the Educational Records Research Unit, JNU. Besides editing three books, he has published a number of articles on social and educational history of modern India in reputed journals in India and abroad.

Nandita Khadria works at the Educational Records Research Unit, JNU. Her research interests and publications also include agrarian and economic history with particular reference to Assam.

Ch. Radha Gayathri works at Educational Records Research Unit, JNU. She has published Female Medical Education in Colonial; India (2008). Her research interest and publications are in history of education, medicine and gender studies.

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