The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal 019566910X, 9780195669107

Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal: The Myth of the Goddess Sati 9781472489449, 9781315223148

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The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America 0393055744, 9780393055740

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Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul 9780857455451

Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their

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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture 9780300133684

The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry

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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal 0822344629, 9780822344629

An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenge

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Print and Publishing in Colonial Bengal: The Journey of Bidyasundar 9781138625112, 9780429397578

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Authority and Violence in Colonial Bengal : 1800-1860 9788185635316, 8185635315

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jadavpur University).

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Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal 9780520268296, 0520268296

Argues that the schools of the (mostly) Protestant missionaries in Bengal did not secularize Bengali society.

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The Culture of Education 9780674251083

In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their c

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Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal 9780520950412

Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modern

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