Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India

by Sanjay Seth

Book Overview

Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was endowed with great significance in India, not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822341050
• ISBN13: 9780822341055
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"