A Hindu Education: Early Years of the Banaras Hindu University

by Leah Renold

The volume aims at a critical assessment of one of the influential institutions of the late colonial era. By focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, the book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion, education, identity formation, resistance patterns, and how the university responded to these issues. The importance of the work lies in offering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195674839
• ISBN13: 9780195674835
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages