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Author:   Jana Tschurenev (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9781108498333

ISBN 10:   1108498337
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: empire civil society, and educational transformation in India; 1. A colonial experiment in education, Madras, 1789–1796; 2. Education of the poor, 1805–1813; 3. Missionaries, empire, and the cause of universal education, 1792–1824; 4. Race, class, and gender: the social agenda of education, 1809–1830; 5. Rules and numbers: transforming rural education, 1814–1830; 6. Intellectual conquest: education societies, 'useful knowledge', and the Bengal Renaissance, 1817–1854; 7. Civil society, government, and educational institutional-building, Bombay presidency, 1819–1882; 8. Teaching the marginalized: universal education and the politics of inequality, 1789–1937; Conclusion: the emergence of public elementary schooling in an imperial frame; Bibliography; Index.

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Jana Tschurenev is Research Fellow at the International Research Centre 'Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History', in Berlin. Her research interests include the history of education, comparative education, global history, and women's and gender history. She has published in several educational journals including Paedagogica Historica and the German Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, has co-edited a volume on the global history of moral reform movements entitled Biopolitik und Sittlichkeitsreform (2014), and a volume on the History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia (2014).

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