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Author Sengupta, Parna, 1971-

Title Pedagogy for religion : missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / Parna Sengupta.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
Contents The molding of native character -- A curriculum for religion -- An object lesson in colonial pedagogy -- The schoolteacher as modern father -- Teaching gender in the colony -- Mission schools and Qur'an schools -- Conclusion : pedagogy for tolerance.
Summary Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity-that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West-by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own t.
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Subject Education -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Education.
India -- Bengal.
History.
Hindus -- Education -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Hindus.
India.
Muslims -- Education -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Muslims -- Education.
Church schools -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Church schools.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sengupta, Parna, 1971- Pedagogy for religion. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520268296 (DLC) 2011006067 (OCoLC)705350727
ISBN 9780520950412 (electronic book)
0520950410 (electronic book)
9780520268296
0520268296
9780520268319
0520268318

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