Format:
Online-Ressource (277 p)
ISBN:
9780822340867
Series Statement:
Politics, History, and Culture
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822390602
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822340867
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Subject Lessons : The Western Education of Colonial India
Language:
English
Keywords:
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