The Routledge Companion to the History of Education in India, 1780-1947

by Parimala V. Rao

Overview

This companion presents a comprehensive overview of educational policies in India, tracing the development of modern education from the late eighteenth century until Indian independence. It also studies various aspects of indigenous education and examines the education system under the British administration.

Drawing on archival and contemporary sources, the book explores the influence of geopolitics on educational policies and gives an in-depth analysis of debates related to access, curriculum, textbooks, funding, girl’s education, missionary education and the education of the Muslim community. It analyses school and collegiate education, various Education Commissions and the Government of India Resolutions. It surveys Indian response to modern education and various forms of National Education. It also discusses Gandhi’s educational ideas and brings forth the entire curriculum of Nai Talim.

An important contribution to the history of education in India, the companion will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of history, education, history of education, sociology, colonial education, Indian education, and political science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040051955
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/19/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	550

About the Author

Parimala V. Rao is a historian and professor of the History of Education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education in London in 2011 and 2014. She has written extensively on education in colonial India. She is the author of Foundations of Tilak’s Nationalism: Discrimination, Education, and Hindutva (2010, paperback 2011) and Beyond Macaulay: Education in India 1780-1860, 2020. She has also edited a critical volume of New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education (2014, paperback 2016) and co-edited the Encyclopaedia of Asian Educators (Routledge UK, 2021). She has co-edited two special issues on modern education in Asia for the journal Espacio, Tiempo y Educación (2018, 2020).

Table of Contents

1. Situating British Educational Policies in India: British Sanskrit Scholars, Parliamentary Democracy and Scottish variable 2. Medium of Instruction Debates: Geopolitics, Brilliant Students and the Survival of the British rule 3. Access to Schools: Debates on the admission of ‘low-caste’ children - 1820-1947 4. Curriculum and Textbooks, and Quality of School Education 1820-1937 5. Primary Education: Adopting Indigenous Schools, Funding the Mass Education and Teacher Training 6. Collegiate Education 1780-1900 7. Girl’s Education: Caught between British and Indian patriarchies 8. The Colonial Secularism, Missionaries and Indian Education 9. Education of the Muslim Community 10. The Era of Macro Debates: Commissions, Committees and All India Perspectives 1882-1937 11. Education for Nation Building 1800-1920: The Progressive Perspectives on Modern Education and Origins of National Education 12. Alternative to Modern Education: Gandhi’s Nai Talim and People’s Response 13. Education on the Eve of Independence 14. Contemporary Indian Opinion: Narayan Bhai on Native Education