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| Title: | Ruling Through Education
: The Politics of Schooling in the Colonial Punjab |
| Author: | Tim Allender |
| ISBN: | 1932705708 : 9781932705706 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 358 |
| Weight: | .478 Kg. |
| Published: | Sterling Publishers PVT Ltd (New Dawn Press) - June 2006 |
| List Price: | 29.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | India: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: EDUCATION |
Tracing the history of colonial education in the Punjab, the large province of Hindustan divided today between India and Pakistan, this book argues that the British-controlled system of colonial education in Hindustan failed well before the national movement challenged foreign educational practice in the early twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival research in Great Britain, India and Pakistan, Allender shows how the early ideas of British officials generated a highly imaginative village system of schooling. Attempting to accommodate local language and religious sensitivities, this broad-based scheme offered possibilities to improve the lot of village boys. The revolt of 1857, and a well-meaning crusade against female infanticide, prompted officials to drop this scheme and to content themselves with city based schools. Christian missionary tensions with the government over their evangelising agenda also meant that their focus on poor students was limited to a mere 17 years. These developments helped to create a strong indigenous voice for educational innovations and change, notably represented in the Arya Samaj. In 1882, the Hunter Commission marked a recognition over the previous 30 years made it impossible for them to reach the general population with an effective European-led scheme of education.
Introduction; Arnold, Halkabandi and Revolt, 1854-9; 'Centralisation' and Montgomery’s Female Education Movement; The Struggle to Establish a Curriculum; The Oriental College Experiment, 1865-81; Talking Textbooks, the Law and the Foundation of the Punjab University; Christian Missionaries and Punjab Education, 1860-77; 'Decentralisation', English Instruction and the Lahore Hegemony; The Hunter Commission: Departmental Disengagement from the Indigenous Narrative ; Conclusion; Index.
