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1 online resource (x, 264 pages) |
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Politics, history, and culture |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Politics, history, and culture.
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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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Education -- India -- Western influences -- History -- 19th century
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Education and state -- India -- History -- 19th century
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Nationalism and education -- India -- History -- 20th century
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Education and state
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Education -- Western influences
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Nationalism and education
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India
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822390602 |
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0822390604 |
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