The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity Essays on Education in India

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A new Historiography for South Asia Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of Education and Their Pain .....25 History and the Nation: The Learning of History in Calcutta and Banaras............49 The family- School relationship and an Alternative history of the Nineeth-Century Family ..........71 History at the Madrasas......85 2. Modernities, Communities, and Genders Languages, families, and the plural learning of the nineteenth- century intelligentsia ........99 Mothers and non-mothers : Gendering the discourse of education in South Asia .......125 Widows, education, and social change ......153 Making the nation : Ansari women in Banaras .....171 The nature of reform in modern India ......179 Learning modernity ....217 The space of the Child ........238 3. Postcolonialism The scholar and her servants............267 A postcolonial School in a Modern World .........299