The Transmission of Knowledge in South Asia Essays on Education, Religion, History, and Politics

by Crook, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780195636444
• ISBN10: 0195636449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-23
• Publisher: School of Oriental and African Studies

Summary

What is the motivation behind the transmission of knowledge and ideas in the specific cultural contexts of South Asian societies? These essays look at schools and schooling, the telling of myth, colonial information gathering, and the spread of the 'hindutva' ideology, among other examples. They relate to each other in their theoretical positions, which are discussed in the editor's introduction. The book's importance lies in an attempt to explore common understanding of the social agenda in widely differing contexts.

Table of Contents

The Control and Expansion of Knowledge: An Introduction	p. 1
Sexual Masquerades in Hindu Myths: Aspects of the Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient India	p. 28
Meandering Madrasas: Knowledge and Short-term Itinerancy in the Tablighi Jama'at	p. 49
Islam and the Impact of Print in South Asia	p. 62
Indigenous Education and Brahminical Hegemony in Bengal	p. 98
The Purpose and Impact of Government Policy on Pathshala Gurumohashoys in Nineteenth-century Bengal	p. 119
Religion and Ritual in Indian Schools: Benaras from the 1880s to the 1940s	p. 135
English as a University Subject in India and England: Calcutta, Allahabad, Benaras, London, Cambridge and Oxford	p. 155
Perceptions of the South Asian Past: Ideology, Nationalism and School History Textbooks	p. 190
Imaging the Self at the Expense of the Other: Stereotypes in Juvenile Imperialist Fiction on India	p. 229
Possessing the Earth: Geological Collections, Information and Education in India, 1800-1850	p. 245
Colonial Rule and the 'Informational Order' in South Asia	p. 280
Hindutva as Pedagogic Violence	p. 316
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