Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-85196-894-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Empires in Perspective

Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellenoit, Hayden J A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Knowledge, Religion and Education in Early Modern India; Chapter 2 British Fears and Indian Society in the Emergence of North Indian Education, c. 1860–1920; Chapter 3 Between East and West: Orientalism, Representations of and Engagements with India; Chapter 4 The Failures of Education and its Sociological Bearings; Chapter 5 Religious Interaction, the Curriculum and Indian Contestations of Late Colonial Knowledge; Chapter 6 Maintaining Missionary Influence: Nationalism, Politics and the Raj c. 1870–1920; conclusion Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Hayden J. A. Bellenoit