A Hindu Education
Early Years of the Banaras Hindu University
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 26 January 2006
- ISBN 9780195674835
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 215x140x21 mm
- Weight 478 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, the book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion. education, identity formation, and resistance patterns and how the university responded to these issues in the colonial situation.
MoreLong description:
The volume aims at a critical assessment of one of the influential institutions of the late colonial era. By focusing on the history of Hindu education at Banaras Hindu University, a major university of British India between 1915 to 1947, the book explores the complex inter-relationships between religion, education, identity formation, resistance patterns, and how the university responded to these issues. The importance of the work lies in offering a new perspective on university
education in colonial India and in its documentation of education as one of the important instruments of identity construction during the colonial rule.
It situates the university in the larger context of a movement to foster Hindu identity in response to the colonial situation. The volume also studies the reform movement, and its important leaders like Annie Besant and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, and their role not only in education but also in the revival of Hinduism. It re-examines the general thou ght of modern scholarship on religious nationalism, which is grounded in the assumption that nationalism thrives only in modern, secular
cultures.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Chapter 1. Raising the Banner of Hinduism in Colonial India
Chapter 2. A Leap in the Dark: The Establishment of the Hindu and Muslim Universities
Chapter 3. On Holy Ground: The Politics and Myth of Sacred Geography
Chapter 4. Gandhi s Challenge: Boycott of BHU and Nationalist Education
Part II : Chapter 5. Taking the High Seat: Religious Authority and the Karmayoga of Education at BHU
Chapter 6. In the Temple of Learning: The Cultural and Academic Atmosphere
Chapter 7. Tradition Unseated: BHU Students and the Quest for Identity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
