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Beyond Macaulay - Education in India, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Beyond Macaulay - Education in India, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Beyond Macaulay provides a radical and comprehensive history of
Indian education in the early colonial era - from the establishment
of the Calcutta Madrasa in 1780 until the end of the East India
Company's rule and the beginning of the administration by the crown
in 1860. The book challenges the conventional theory that the
British administration imposed English language and modern
education on Indians. Based on rich archival evidence, it
critically explores data on 16,000 indigenous schools and shows
that indigenous education was not oral, informal, and
Brahmin-centric but written, formal, and egalitarian. The author
highlights the educational policies of the colonial state and the
way it actively opposed the introduction of modern education and
privileged Brahmins. By including hitherto unused 41 Educational
Minutes of Macaulay, the volume examines his educational ideas, and
analyses why the colonial state closed down every school
established by him. It also contrasts the educational ideas of the
British elites and the Orientalists with dissenting Scottish
voices. The book discusses post-Macaulayan educational policies and
the Wood's Despatch of 1854 as well as educational institutions
during the revolt of 1857. It covers indigenous education in
Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and modern Indian vernaculars, the impact
of the colonial policies on these schools, and traces the history
of education in Bengal, North India, and Madras and Bombay
Presidencies, as also the role of caste and religion in society.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of
education, history of education, Indian history, South Asian
history, colonial history, sociology, political history and
political science.
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