Duties of a ‘good citizen’: colonial secondary school textbook policies in late nineteenth-century India

What is it about?

This article explains why the British colonial regime undertook a significant shift in its education policy since the 1870s to ensure that the government could control schoolbooks read by Indian children. It introduced new policies to ensure that the government had the power to determine what Indian children read in schools in an effort to prevent them from being influenced by a gathering nationalist storm.

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