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INSTITUTIONALIZING COLONIAL EDUCATION POLICY, INSTITUTING GOVERNMENTALITY IN BRITISH COLONIAL INDIA
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This paper examines the discursive and political fields within which the colonial education policy was formalized in nineteenth century India. The first three decades of the nineteenth century were marked with the battle of ideas regarding the nature and content of education. While the Anglicists argued for English as the only means of schooling in India, the Orientalists wanted English to coexist with indigenous systems of instruction. This paper explains how an education policy as a technique of governance was constituted and how the power of colonial governmentality came to be premised alongside such a technique in colonial India.
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