Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860–1920
Hayden J A Bellenoit
Empires in Perspective
978 1 85196 894 7: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 546 5
Focusing on late colonial India, Bellenoit analyses education in colonial society. Most scholars view missionary teachers as handmaidens of the empire, and their theology as intrinsically imperialistic. However, Bellenoit argues that their interaction with India led them away from imperial norms; a simplistic division of colonisers and colonised is insufficient to explain power relations in late colonial India.
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Readership
Empire Studies, Religious Studies, Indian History, Victorian Studies
Contents
Introduction
Prologue: Knowledge, Religion and Education in Early Modern India
Chapter 1: British Fears and Indian Society in the Emergence of Missionary Education, 1860–1920
Chapter 2: Between East and West: Missionary Aims and Representations of India
Chapter 3: The Failures of Education and its Infrastructural and Sociological Limits
Chapter 4: Religious Interaction, the Curriculum and Indian Contestations
Chapter 5: Maintaining Missionary Influence: Nationalism, Politics and the Raj, 1870–1920
Epilogue: Knowledge, Nationalism and Empire in late Colonial India
Conclusion
Reviews
'Essential...reading for anyone concerned with subcontinental religion and the missionary impulse in the post-Mutiny period, Bellenoit's project is formidably researched and closely argued.'
– Gerald Studdert-Kennedy, Ecclesiastical History
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