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New perspectives in the history of Indian education

Rao, Parimala V. Ed.

New perspectives in the history of Indian education - New Delhi Orient black swan pvt. ltd. 2014 - viii,342p.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Perspectives Old and New PARIMALAV. RAO
PART I
Forms of Discrimination in Education
1. Dalit Initiatives in Education, 1880-1992 45
ELEANOR ZELLIOT
2. A College of One's Own 68
An International Perspective on
the Value of Historically Dalit Colleges
LAURA DUDLEY JENKINS
3. Silent Voices 90
Women's Perceptions about Self and Education in Late Nineteenth-century India RADHA GAYATHRI
4. Contested Domains 120
Restructuring Education and Religious Identity in Sikh andArya Samaj Schools in Punjab MAHIMA MANCHANDA
PART II
Political Context of Education
5. Compulsory Education and the Political Leadership 151
in Colonial India, 1840-1947 PARI MALA V. RAO
6. Education, Missionaries and the Indian Nation, 176
c. 1880-1920 HAYDEN BELLENOIT
7. Re-defining Work and Education as a Means to 196
National Self-determination
A Comparative Study of Gandhian India
and Peronist Argentina
SlMONE HOLZWARTH AND VERONICA OELSNER
8. The Genesis of Curzon's University Reforms, 224
1899-1905
SURESH CHANDRA GHOSH
9. The Transformation of Schooling in Colonial Punjab, 1854-1900 PREETI 269
Consolidated Bibliography 301
Notes on the Contributors 323
Index 325




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