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Informationen zum Autor Nita Kumar is Brown Family Professor in South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA. Klappentext This volume deals with multiple sites of production of education, including homes and families, neighbourhoods, cities and buildings. It also discusses sources and semantic fields such as reform efforts, texts, languages, and the media. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays studies the provincial and the rural, locating the sites of the community and family as producing other histories. The volume is divided into three parts: the first part engages with disabling practices of history within communities; the second part works towards producing gendered and community-oriented histories of modernity in South Asia; the third part proposes post-colonialism as an appropriate term for discussions of history and modernity and includes reflections on the scholar's particular position within the history and modernity. In addition, there are certain methodological arguments and concepts that span the whole book, such as the implication of narratives and the power of pain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Section I: A New Historiography for South Asia 1: Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of Education and Their Pain 2: History and the Nation: The Learning of History in Calcutta and Banaras 3: The Family-School Relationship and an Alternative History of the Nineteenth-century Family 4: History at the Madrasas Section II: Modernities, Communities, and Genders 5: Languages, Families, and the Plural Learning of the Nineteenth-century Intelligentsia 6: Mothers and Non-mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in South Asia 7: Widows, Education, and Social Change 8: Making the Nation: Ansari Women in Banaras 9: The Nature of Reform in Modern India: A discussion of mai, a novel by Geetanjali Shree 10: Learning Modernities? The Technology of Education in India 11: The Space of the Child: The Nation, the Neighbourhood, and the Home Section III: Post-colonialism 12: The Scholar and Her Servants: Further Thoughts on Post-colonialism and Education 13: A Post-colonial School in a Modern World Bibliography Index ...
