Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Authors: Brunner, Michael Philipp
Free Preview- 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 turn of the twentieth century
- Explores ideas of Sikh modernity in the Punjab as distinct from the frameworks of British imperialism and mainstream Indian nationalism
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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.
- About the authors
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Michael Philipp Brunner is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at Tufts University, USA. He completed his PhD at the Institute of History at ETH Zurich.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Gurus, Grades, and the Globe: Khalsa College, Education, and Colonial Modernity in South Asia
Pages 1-30
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The Politics of Education: Socio-Religious Transformation, Politicised Sikhism and Limited Nationalism at Khalsa College, c. 1880–1947
Pages 31-87
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Conceiving Modern Sikhism: Religious Instruction, Scientism, and Comparative Religion at Khalsa College
Pages 89-137
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Teaching Development: Scientific Agriculture and Rural Reconstruction at Khalsa College
Pages 139-198
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Disciplining the Martial Sikh: Physical Education, Youth Organisations, and Military at Khalsa College
Pages 199-249
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
- Book Subtitle
- Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
- Authors
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- Michael Philipp Brunner
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-53514-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-53514-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-53513-1
- Series ISSN
- 2635-1633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 279
- Number of Illustrations
- 11 b/w illustrations
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