Getting Girls to School: Social reform in the Tamil Districts, 1870-1930
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1st Ed.
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8185604061
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xi+298p., Tables
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How do cultures define education, especially female education? Sita Anantha Raman explains how perceptions change, how women's lives are affected, and how the new dispensation still remains directed by the male view of the educated woman. As the colonial government policy changed towards intervention, urged on by Western mission-aries, government officials and South Indian men-the latter being the product of Western-style education--women were seen as almost all ...
