The History of Education in Modern India, 1757-2007 presents a historical overview of education in Modern India from its colonial beginning in 1757 through the birth of an independent India in 1947 till the early years of the new millennium. This revised and updated edition reviews controversial issues like the introduction of English education in India, the authorship of the education dispatch of 1854, the genesis of Curzon’s university reform of 1899-1905 and also the implementation of the new national policy of education promulgated in 1986 in the background of the shifting political scenario in the last decade of the last millennium as well as the developments and the changes that have take place in education in our country in the early years of the new millennium following globalisation. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, the book is based on the critical use of archival sources, newspapers and private papers and is essential reading not only for students at the graduate and postgraduate levels but also for a larger audience in India and abroad with an interest in education and policy in India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Suresh Chandra Ghosh
Formerly a member on the UGC Education Panel and associated with a number of UGC committees including the Working Group on Higher Education for IX plan as well as with the Rehabilitation Council of India as a member of many of its committees and sub-committees, Suresh Chandra Ghosh was a post-doctoral Fellow in History at Edinburgh University, in 1968-70, Honorary visiting Scholar at the University of London, Institute of Education in 1981, a Visiting Fellow at the Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme, Paris, in 1991-92, at the Institute of Advanced Study of Humanities in Edinburgh in 1992 and at the University of Western Ontario, London and the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Toronto, in 1993. In 1988 he was sponsored by the New Delhi Ford Foundation to deliver a lecture on the 1986 New Education Policy in India at the Duke and the Indiana Universities in the United States. Author of twelve research monographs and twelve papers mostly published abroad, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Paedagogica Historica, Belgium and now a Gast Professor at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany, since April 2000. His forthcoming publications include History of Education in Ancient India, 3000 B.C. to 1192 A.D.
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