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100			_aSengupta, Parna,
245			_aPedagogy for Religion _b: Missionary Education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal _c/ Parna Sengupta
260			_aHyderabad _b:Orient Blackswan _c2011
300			_ax, 211p. _c24cm.
365			_b1095
505			_aThe molding of native character -- A curriculum for religion -- An object lesson in colonial pedagogy -- The schoolteacher as modern father -- Teaching gender in the colony -- Mission schools and Qur'an schools -- Conclusion : pedagogy for tolerance.
520			_aOffering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity-that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West-by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own t
650			_aEducation
650			_aSchools & their activities; special education
650			_aChurch schools -- India -- Bengal -- History.
650			_aMissions -- Educational work
650			_aMuslims -- Education
650			_aMuslims -- Education
655			_aEducation
700			_aSengupta, Parna,
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