Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India
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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
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Subject to PedagogyChanging the Subject: Western Knowledge and the Question of Difference 17Diagnosing Moral Crisis: Western Knowledge and Its Indian Object 47Which Past? Whose History? 79Modern Knowledge, Modern NationGovernmentality and Identity: Constituting the "Backward but Proud Muslim" 109Gender and the Nation: Debating Female Education 129Vernacular Modernity: The Nationalist Imagination 159Epilogue: Knowing Modernity, Being Modern 183Notes 197Bibliography 235Index 259
