Download or read book Secularism Islam and Education in India 1830 1910 written by Robert Ivermee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and private archives, Ivermee presents a study of British/Muslim negotiations over the secularization of colonial Indian education and on the changing nature of secularism across space and time.

Download or read book Secularism Islam and Education in India 1830 1910 written by Robert Ivermee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and private archives, Ivermee presents a study of British/Muslim negotiations over the secularization of colonial Indian education and on the changing nature of secularism across space and time.

Download or read book Courting Islam written by Sean Oliver-Dee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the perceptions of the American and British governments about Islam and Muslims based upon their experiences over the past two centuries. It provides a response to the accusation that US and British governments are inherently anti-Islamic and are seeking the destruction of that faith through their policy decisions. The book uses primary documents from the US and British governments to examine the attitudes of politicians and officials in a variety contexts ranging from the ‘War on Terror’, the Iranian Revolution and the ‘Trojan Horse’ Scandal to the conversion of Alexander Russell Webb to Islam, Islamic Finance and Mosque-building. In so doing it provides a wide-angle lens on the diversity of issues and experiences which have shaped the views of officials and politicians about Islam.

Download or read book Pious Labor written by Amanda Lanzillo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class people across northern India found themselves negotiating rapid industrial change, emerging technologies, and class hierarchies. In response to these changes, Indian Muslim artisans began publicly asserting the deep relation between their religion and their labor, using the increasingly accessible popular press to redefine Islamic traditions “from below.” Centering the stories and experiences of metalsmiths, stonemasons, tailors, press workers, and carpenters, Pious Labor examines colonial-era social and technological changes through the perspectives of the workers themselves. As Amanda Lanzillo shows, the colonial marginalization of these artisans is intimately linked with the continued exclusion of laboring voices today. By drawing on previously unstudied Urdu-language technical manuals and community histories, Lanzillo highlights not only the materiality of artisanal production but also the cultural agency of artisanal producers, filling in a major gap in South Asian history.

Download or read book Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab written by Michael Philipp Brunner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Mosques of Colonial South Asia written by Sana Haroon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places of worship. Their efforts failed as the ideals they presented flew in the face of colonial secularism. This book looks at the legal history of Muslim endowments and the intellectual and social history of sectarian identities, demonstrating how these topics are interconnected in ways that affected the everyday lives of mosque congregants across North India. Through the use of legal records, archives and multiple case studies Sana Haroon ties a series of narrative threads stretching across multiple regions in Colonial South Asia.

Download or read book Nation and Region in Grierson s Linguistic Survey of India written by Javed Majeed and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state’s conceptualisation of the subcontinent, in which religious and caste differences were key to its understanding of Indian society. A number of the Survey’s narratives are detachable from its rigorous linguistic imperatives, and together with aspects of Grierson’s other texts, these contributed to the way in which Indian nationalists appropriated and reshaped languages, making them religiously charged ideological symbols of particular versions of the subcontinent. Thus, the Survey played an important role in the emergence of religious nationalism and language conflict in the subcontinent in the 20th century. This volume, like its companion volume Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, will be a great resource for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature, history, political studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Download or read book Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India written by Margrit Pernau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor. The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.

Download or read book Language as Identity in Colonial India written by Papia Sengupta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of “self-identity” and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the events, policies and changes that led to the development and churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on language and education, from which the multiple discourses on “self” and belonging in modern India emanated.

Download or read book Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo World and British Colonial Contexts 1800 1950 written by Hugh Morrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places ‘religion’ at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various ‘British’ settings denoted as ‘Anglo’ or ‘colonial’ during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. These contexts include mission fields, churches, families, Sunday schools, camps, schools and youth movements. Together they are treated as ‘sites’ in which religion contributed to identity formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as gender, race, disability and denomination. The contributors develop this subject for childhoods that were experienced largely, but not exclusively, outside the ‘metropole’, in a diversity of geographical settings. By extending the geographic range, even within the British world, it provides a more rounded perspective on children’s global engagement with religion.

Download or read book Hooghly written by Robert Ivermee and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2020 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, laborers and others from Europe, Asia and beyond. Hooghly seeks to restore the waterway to the heart of global history. Focusing in turn on the role of and competition between those who struggled to control the river--the Portuguese, the Mughals, the Dutch, the French and finally the British, who built their imperial capital, Calcutta, on its banks--the author considers how the Hooghly was integrated into global networks of encounter and exchange, and the dramatic consequences that ensued. Traveling up and down the river, Robert Ivermee explores themes of enduring concern, among them the dynamics of modern capitalism and the power of large corporations; migration and human trafficking; the role of new technologies in revolutionizing social relations; and the human impact on the natural world. The Hooghly's global history, he concludes, may offer lessons for India as it emerges as a world superpower.

Download or read book Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia 1770 1870 written by Gareth Knapman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores colonial debates on race, liberalism, colonial expansion and equality in South-East Asia, focusing on the writings of John Crawfurd, one of the British Empire’s leading racial theorists and colonial administrators in Asia.

Download or read book A History of Italian Colonialism 1860 1907 written by Giuseppe Finaldi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative history of Italian colonialism from Italian unification in the 1860s to the first decade of the twentieth century; that is, it details Italy’s imperialism in the years of the Scramble for Africa. It deals with the factors that drove Italy to search for territory in Africa in the 1870s and 1880s and describes the reasoning behind the trajectories adopted and objectives pursued. The events that brought Italy to open conflict with the Ethiopian Empire culminating in the Italian defeat at Adowa in March 1896 are central to the book. However its scope is much broader, as it considers the establishment of Italian power in Eritrea as well as Somalia before and after the defeat. By telling its history, it explains why Italy emerged irresolute and humiliated in this, its first thrust into Africa, yet nonetheless determined to pursue expansion in the future. The seeds for the conquest of Libya in 1911 and Ethiopia in 1935 had been sown.

Download or read book Anglo Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair 1885 1887 written by Stephen A. Royle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed close to war over Afghanistan, and taking the islands, with their sheltered anchorage, would deny them to Russia while they might be useful in any blockade of the Russian fleet in Vladivostok. However, even in this imperial era, there were qualms about seizing inhabited territory belonging to a friendly nation, if only through the precedent it may set for others – particularly Russia – to do the same. Thus, Britain stressed that occupation was temporary and attempted to gain legitimate control anyway, through issuing leases. In the event, after much political posturing from East Asian nations, given that the geopolitical situation improved and there was no war with Russia, the British, after assurances that Russia would not take Port Hamilton, slipped away in February 1887. Geomundo returned to obscurity. This book, the first full-length study of the Port Hamilton Affair, is based around contemporary material varying from printed dispatches and government reports to original archival manuscripts. This enables the book’s scope to range from setting the Port Hamilton Affair into its context within the high geopolitics of East Asia through study of the life of the garrison stationed on the islands to relations between the powerless indigenous islanders and their British occupiers.

Download or read book Education Literature and Islam written by Mohammad Mujeeb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Introduction 1. Speaking for Myself 2. My Schooldays 3. Right and Wrong in Education 4. Textbooks: New Ideals and Responsibilities 5. Education and Traditional Values 6. Culture 7. Conscience 8. When the World is Too Much with Us 9. Secularism 10. Sufism in India 11. Indo-Iranian Synthesis in Literature 12. The Perso Arabic Script 13. Amir Khusrau 14. Ghalib: The Poetic Tradition 15. Ghalib as Poet 16. Iqbal 17. Umrao Jan Ada 18. What Shakespeare Means to Me 19. Glories of Indian Art 20. The Red Fort 21. The Qutub Complex as a Social Document 22. The Status of the Individual Conscience in Islam 23. Freedom and Obligation: The Islamic View 24. Islamic Influence on Indian Society 25. The Indian Muslims after Independence 26. Gandhi and the Muslim Masses 27. Guru Nanak Through Muslim Eyes 28. The Discovery of India 29. Approach to the Study of Medieval Indian History 30. The Meaning of Indian History 31. The Middle Ages (ad 900-1450) 32. The Religious World-State (ad 200-900) 33. A Century of Revolutions (1750 1850) 34. Profiles of Some Great Cultures Index ....Education has become a process of transmission and reception, and the more smooth-working the machinery, the more satisfactory the results. Consider the rich variety of methods... .... Nature appears in few symbols-spring, rose, poppy, valley, mountain, shore, wave, stream, sun, moon, light, shade, darkness, thorn, wasteland. There are archetypes of lover and beloved, mythical.... Prof. Mujeeb was one of the most brilliant stars of the firmament of new ideas that the group led by Dr. Zakir Husain spread out over the Jamia Millia Islamia, which was both the birth-ground of a new educational philosophy and practice and a battle-ground of new ideas necessary to lead the Indian Muslim into a future of intellectual and spiritual freedom, a happy balance of faith and rationalism and a constructive synthesis of core Islamic and Indian civilizational values. This book represents all the shades and hues of the astonishingly diverse intellectual and academic expressions and achievements that Prof. Mujeeb was known for.

Download or read book The Concept of Secular Education in India written by Muktishree Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development of secular ideas and principles in the history of education in India; a study.

Download or read book History of Islamic Education in India and Nadvat Ul Ulama written by Ghazanfar Ali Khan and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After re-establishing their rule, the Europeans started a policy of persecution against the Indian Muslims because they feared and considered the Muslims as exclusively responsible for what they called the Mutiny of 1857. This policy of continuing persecution by the British ruined the Indian Muslim society, giving rise to a general feeling of helplessness. In this situation of gloom, some farsighted Muslims stood up and took certain steps to restore their self-esteem and preserve their religious identity. Maulana Qasim Nanauntvi founded Dar-ul-Uloom deoband in 1866 for Islamic education on traditional pattern. Dar Ul-Uloom Deoband followed, more or less, Dars-e-Nizami and did not include modern or Western Education in its courses of studies. It was a syllabus meant for the teaching of Quran, Hadith, Fiqh and Aqaid. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, on the other hand, founded M.A.O College in 1875 at Aligarh and adopted Western Arts and Sciences. This emphasis on purely religious or totally modern education left between the two educational goals, a widening gap. Infact Nadvat Ul-Ulama was established mainly to fill this gap. It aimed at reforming the syllabi of madaris-e-Islamiya and striving to lessen the differences among Muslim sects and groups. Soon the fame and reputation of Dar-Al-Ulum Nadvat Ul-Ulama outshone many Islamic seminaries. It came to be considered next only to Dar-Ul-Ulum Deoband in the whole of the subcontinent. The influence of Dar-Al-Ulum Nadvat ul-Ulama in the teaching of Arabic language and literature has been very remarkable. The contributinos of its graduates particularly in the field of biography and Islamic history are a hallmark of Nadvah. Its scholars are scattered all over the world and have been playing a very conspicious role in the dissemination of Islamic teachings and values. The Introductory part of this study focuses in detail on the importance of education in the light of Quran and hadith and the history of Madrasas and its development with special reference to Saltanat and Mughal period of India. Courses of studies of the madrasas and the reasons of downfall of the madrasas have also been discussed. In the first chapter, conditions of the Muslim community in India during 19th century in respect of education have been described at length. It hightlights the resolutions and policies of the British regarding education. Muslim responses to Western education, social, political, educational and economic condition of the Muslims in the post-1857 period and role of Maulana Qasim nanauti, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and 'Allamah Sihbli Nomani in the upliftment of the Muslim community. Chapter two is related to the establishment of Dar Al Ulum Nadvat ul Ulama and the causes which required the need of urgent attention. The chapter deals at length with the objectives of Nadvah, outline of the proposed Dar-Al-Ulum, relations between government and Nadvat Ul Ulama and the foundation ceremony of the institution. In Chapter three the first and foremost objective of Nadvah, i.e to reform and update the subjects and courses of studies has been discussed in detail. The chapter elaborates Shiblis views regarding the cirriculum, characteristics of Dars-e-Nizami, Shah Waliullah's contribution to education, Maulana Mongeri's Musavvedah-e-Nisab-e Arabi, opening of Darjah-e Takmil and the revision and division of the course of studies. Chapter four has been divided into two parts. Part first focusses on the lives and contributions of the founder members of Nadvah. Second part highlights the lives and works of the renowned scholar of Nadvah.