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Informationen zum Autor Sanjay Seth is Reader in Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Marxist Theory and Nationalist Politics: The Case of Colonial India and a coeditor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. Klappentext A study of how modern, Western knowledge came to be disseminated in India and came to assume its current status as the obvious, and almost the only, mode of knowing about India; further, and more dubiously, the work examines whether this knowledge is in f Zusammenfassung Beginning in 1835! British colonizers sought to promote modern! western knowledge in India! primarily through schools. Delving into a large archive of popular writings! and drawing on history! political science! and philosophy! the author considers western education in India from various perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1: Subject to Pedagogy 1. Changing the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference 17 2. Diagnosing Moral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object 47 3. Which Past? Whose History? 79 Part II: Modern Knowledge, Modern Nation 4. Governmentality and Identity: Constituting the “Backward but Proud Muslim” 109 5. Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education 129 6. Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination 159 Epilogue: Knowing Modernity, Being Modern 183 Notes 197 Bibliography 235 Index 259
