Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab : Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 | 1st edition

by Michael Philipp Brunner

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Publisher	Springer Nature
Language	English
Book type	Hardcover
Utgiven	2020-12-25
Edition	1
Pages	279
ISBN	9783030535131
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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.

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