| 书目名称 | Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab | | 副标题 | Khalsa College, the | | 编辑 | Michael Philipp Brunner | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Takes an innovative micro-history approach to global, colonial and Sikh modernity.Offers the first in-depth study of Khalsa College, advancing research on South Asian educational institutions at the t | | 丛书名称 | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province of Punjab in 1892 by the religious minority community of the Sikhs. Addressing topics such as politics, religion, rural development, militarism or physical education, the study shows how Sikh educationalists and activists made use of and ‘localised’ communal, imperial, national and transnational discourses and knowledge. Their modernist visions and schemes transcended both imperialist and mainstream nationalist frameworks and networks. In its quest to educate the modern Sikh – scientific, practical, disciplined and physically fit – the college navigated between very local and global claims, opportunities and contingencies, mirroring modernity’s ambivalent simultaneity of universalism and particularism.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | Colonial modernity; Amritsar; British Empire; India; Reform; Educational institution; Sikhism; Hinduism; Isl | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53514-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-53516-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-53514-8Series ISSN 2635-1633 Series E-ISSN 2635-1641 | | issn_series | 2635-1633 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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