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- Title
COLONIZATION, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND THE BENGALI BHADRALOK: STUDIES ON THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE, 1856-1905.
- Authors
SARKAR, SUVOBRATA
- Abstract
This article attempts to place the contested terrain of technical education within the context of colonial Bengal. The latter half of the nineteenth century was critical with respect to the generation of technical knowledge: in 1856, Bengal Engineering College, among the oldest on the subcontinent, was established, and in 1905, the partition of Bengal represented a pivotal moment in Bengali history. One outcome of the partition was the establishment of institutions with the goal of promoting techno-scientific education, applying the work of the intelligentsia to the building of the province's industrial sector. With these important societal changes as the backdrop, this paper seeks to locate the development and assimilation of technical education in Bengal, from 1856 to 1905.
- Subjects
BHADRALOKS; COLONIZATION; TECHNICAL education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; HISTORY of Bengal, India
- Publication
Harvard Asia Quarterly, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 3, p17
- ISSN
1522-4147
- Publication type
Article