Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920

Taylor & Francis

Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms. > Contributes simultaneously to both British imperial and Indian history. This work demonstrates that missionary understandings and interactions with India, rather than being party to imperial ideologies, often diverged from metropolitan and imperial norms. > Introduction; Chapter 1 Knowledge, Religion and Education in Early Modern India; Chapter 2 British Fears and Indian Society in the Emergence of North Indian Education, c. 1860\u20131920; Chapter 3 Between East and West: Orientalism, Representations of and Engagements with India; Chapter 4 The Failures of Education and its Sociological Bearings; Chapter 5 Religious Interaction, the Curriculum and Indian Contestations of Late Colonial Knowledge; Chapter 6 Maintaining Missio;