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Subject Lessons - The Western Education of Colonial India (Paperback)
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Subject Lessons - The Western Education of Colonial India (Paperback)
Series: Politics, History, and Culture
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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.Drawing on history,
political science, anthropology, and philosophy, Seth interprets
the debates and controversies that came to surround western
education. Central among these were concerns that Indian students
were acquiring western education by rote memorization-and were
therefore not acquiring "true knowledge"-and that western education
had plunged Indian students into a moral crisis, leaving them torn
between modern, western knowledge and traditional Indian beliefs.
Seth argues that these concerns, voiced by the British as well as
by nationalists, reflected the anxiety that western education was
failing to produce the modern subjects it presupposed. This failure
suggested that western knowledge was not the universal epistemology
it was thought to be. Turning to the production of collective
identities, Seth illuminates the nationalists' position vis-a-vis
western education-which they both sought and criticized-through
analyses of discussions about the education of Muslims and women.
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