: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala Kannan, Divya. creator Divya Kannan text New York : Cambridge University Press , 2024 monographic eng

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xiii, 322p. : 24cm. Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Protestant Christian missionary archives of the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society to showcase the processes of negotiation, tensions, and underlying violence in the encounters between European 'outsiders' and local populations on the question of education. It examines the interplay of caste and education in reshaping ideas and norms of modern childhood and lower-caste community building in the regions of Travancore, Cochin, and Malabar. Set against a comparative historical perspective, the book argues for a greater focus on subaltern histories, especially the meanings and practices associated with educating poor, lower-caste children within the confines of formal schooling and beyond. / Divya Kannan. Caste Christian missions Education 155.418 KAN 9781009343343 : International Book Distrubutors : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. 241204 20261004175737.0