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Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India

Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India

Seth, Sanjay

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Series: Politics, History, and Culture

General EducationGeneral World HistoryIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0822341050
ISBN13: 9780822341055
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 29 2007
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge traveled to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not only by the colonizers but also by the colonized, to the extent that today almost all serious knowledge about India--even within India--is based on western epistemologies. In Subject Lessons, Sanjay Seth's investigation into how western knowledge was received by Indians under colonial rule becomes a broader inquiry into how modern, western epistemology came to be seen not merely as one way of knowing among others but as knowledge itself.

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