Seth / Adams / Steinmetz Subject Lessons

The Western Education of Colonial India
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9060-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seth, Sanjay

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part 1: Subject to Pedagogy

1. Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference 17

2. Diagnosing Moral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object 47

3. Which Past? Whose History? 79

Part II: Modern Knowledge, Modern Nation

4. Governmentality and Identity: Constituting the “Backward but Proud Muslim” 109

5. Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education 129

6. Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination 159

Epilogue: Knowing Modernity, Being Modern 183

Notes 197

Bibliography 235

Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Sanjay Seth is Reader in Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Marxist Theory and Nationalist Politics: The Case of Colonial India and a coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.