Contested Childhoods - Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala

"Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Protestant Christian missionary archives of the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society to showcase the processes of negotiation, tensions, and underlying violence in the encounters between European 'outsiders' and local populations on the question of education. It examines the interplay of caste and education in reshaping ideas and norms of modern childhood and lower-caste community building in the regions of Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar. Set against a comparative historical perspective, the book argues for a greater focus on subaltern histories, especially on the meanings and practices associated with educating poor, lower-caste children within the confines of formal schooling and beyond"--

List of contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Cast(e)ing Schools; 2. Saving Girls, Saving Souls; 3. Ora et Labora; 4. Cultivating Virtue; 5. Debating Compulsion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Divya Kannan teaches in the Department of History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, India. She is a historian of South Asia with particular interests in histories of childhood and youth, gender and sexuality, empires and colonial violence, histories of education, curriculum and pedagogy, Christian missions, and public and oral histories.

Product details

• Authors: Divya Kannan, Divya (Shiv Nadar University Kannan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009343343
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934334-3
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, India, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Education, Asian History, C 1700 To C 1800, For higher / tertiary / university education, Southern India, HISTORY / Asia / South / General