Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab - Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province of Punjab in 1892 by the religious minority community of the Sikhs. Addressing topics such as politics, religion, rural development, militarism or physical education, the study shows how Sikh educationalists and activists made use of and 'localised' communal, imperial, national and transnational discourses and knowledge. Their modernist visions and schemes transcended both imperialist and mainstream nationalist frameworks and networks. In its quest to educate the modern Sikh - scientific, practical, disciplined and physically fit - the college navigated between very local and global claims, opportunities and contingencies, mirroring modernity's ambivalent simultaneity of universalism and particularism.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Michael Philipp Brunner
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	279
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-053513-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-053513-4
Barcode:	9783030535131

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