An Early Venture in Decolonization British Students at Indian and South Asian Universities

Auteur

Mary Searle-Chatterjee is a retired Social Anthropologist and lecturer in South Asian Studies, as well as author and editor of academic books on India and education. She co-edited Religion, Language and Power (2008) with Nile Green.

Texte du rabat

Timely in its contribution to on-going debates on the decolonisation of education, this novel volume charts the development of a scheme of postgraduate transnational education that saw British students sent to Indian and South Asian Universities while political decolonization was still ongoing.

Contenu

PART I: BACKGROUND; 1. Introduction; 2. 1961 The Commonwealth Scholarship scheme begins; 3. Student funding and geo-politics; PART II: THE STUDENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS - THE 1960s AND EARLY 1970s; 4. The scheme gathers pace as the 1960s proceed; 5. Indian Philosophy, Religion and Sanskrit; 6. Sociological and anthropological research; 7. Studying subcontinental history; PART III: THE STUDENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS IN THE 1970s; 8. Studying architecture and music; 9. Buddhist Studies and Ceylon/Sri Lanka; PART IV: THE STUDENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s; 10. The polarization of the era is reflected in some of the students; 11. Studying art; 12. Studying art the Baroda University Faculty of Fine Arts 1982-5; 13. Studying art the Baroda University Faculty of Fine Arts 1986-89; 14. The scheme moves towards its end: the 1990s; PART V; SPECIAL CASES PERHAPS; 15. Studying science in the subcontinent; 16. Students of South Asian heritage or ancestry; PART VI: REFLECTIONS; 17. Changing motivations over forty years; 18. Learning from Indians and South Asians; Index