The transmission of knowledge in South Asia : essays on education, religion, history and politics / edited by Nigel Crook
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1996
Descript
x, 336 p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
Sexual Masquerades in Hindu Myths: Aspects of the Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient India / Wendy Doniger -- Meandering Madrasaa: Knowledge and Short-term Itinerancy in the Tablighi Jama'at / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Islam and the Impact of Print in South Asia / Francis Robinson -- Indigenous Education and Brahminical Hegemony in Bengal / Poromesh Acharya -- The Purpose and Impact of Government Policy on Pathahala Gurumohashoys in Nineteenth0century Bengal / Kazi Shahidullah -- Religion and Ritual in Indian Schools: Benaras from the 1880s to the 1940s / Nita Kumar -- English as a University Subject in India and England: Calcutta, Allahabad, London, Cambridge and Oxford / J.B. Harrison -- Perceptions of South Asian Past: Ideology, Nationalism and School History Textbooks / Avril Powell -- Imaging the Self at the Expense of the Other: Stereotypes in Juvenile Imperialist Fiction on India / Helen A. Kanitkar -- Possessing the Earth: Geological Collections, Information and Education in India, 1800-1850 / Andrew Grout -- Colonial Rule and the 'Informational Order' in South Asia / C.A.Bayly -- Hindutva as Pedagogic Violence / Jayant Lele