Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics

Nilanjana Paul (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

104 Seiten

2023
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-22969-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling, eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School, Lady Brabourne College, Eden College, Calcutta, and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them.

An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India, the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, religion, education, Partition studies, minority studies, imperialism, colonialism, and South Asian history.

Nilanjana Paul is Assistant Professor, Department of History, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Author’s note

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Conflict begins

2 Partition politics

3 Period of turmoil

4 Fazlul Huq in power

5 Women’s education

Conclusion

Appendix I

Appendix II

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-22969-1 / 1032229691
ISBN-13	978-1-032-22969-0 / 9781032229690
Zustand	Neuware