iPreface/iIntroductionbSection I:/b A New Historiography for South Asia1. Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of Education and Their Pain2. History and the Nation: The Learning of History in Calcutta and Banaras3. The Family-School Relationship and an Alternative History of the Nineteenth-century Family4. History at the MadrasasbSection II:/b Modernities, Communities, and Genders5. Languages, Families, and the Plural Learning of the Nineteenth-century Intelligentsia6. Mothers and Non-mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in South Asia7. Widows, Education, and Social Change8.

Making the Nation: Ansari Women in Banaras9. The Nature of Reform in Modern India: A discussion of imai/i, a novel by Geetanjali Shree10. Learning Modernities? The Technology of Education in India11. The Space of the Child: The Nation, the Neighbourhood, and the HomebSection III:/b Post-colonialism12. The Scholar and Her Servants: Further Thoughts on Post-colonialism and Education13. A Post-colonial School in a Modern WorldiBibliography/iiIndex/i.