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"The volume deals with the development of women’s education documentarily between 1850 and 1920. The documents drawn mostly from unpublished collection of materials at the National Archives of India, juxtapose the views of the British colonial government and the Indian nationalists and other public spokesmen. The documents have been selected and edited at the Educational Records Research Unit of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi."
This collection of documents, with an Introduction by Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya of Jawaharlal Nehru University, focuses upon the evolution of the idea of National Education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in India. From the 1880’s there develops a critique of the colonial education system and, in a more general way, the cultural hegemony established through that system – the privileging of ‘English education’, the attribution of ...