Subject Lessons
The Western Education of Colonial India
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2007
280 pages
978-0-8223-9060-2 (ISBN)
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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
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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.
Content
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
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
