Connecting Histories of Education

Introduction: Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post‑)Colonial Education
Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs and Kate Rousmaniere

Part 1: Historiographical Reflections

Chapter 1. History of Education beyond the Nation? Trends in Historical and Educational Scholarship
Eckhardt Fuchs

Chapter 2. Contested Pasts: The Concept of Civilization in the Colonial and Nationalist Discourse of Education
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Chapter 3. Writing Histories of Congolese Colonial Education: An Historiographical View from Belgium
Marc Depaepe

Chapter 4. Range and Limits of the Countryside Schooling Historiography in Latin America (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries): Some Reflections
Alicia Civera

Part 2: Travelling Concepts

Chapter 5. A Trans-Cultural Transaction: William Carey’s Baptist Mission, the Monitorial Method and the Bengali Renaissance
Mary Hilton

Chapter 6. A Colonial Experiment in Education: Madras, 1789–1796
Jana Tschurenev

Part 3: Indigenous Education and Resistance

Chapter 7. A New Education for ‘Young India’: Exploring Nai Talim from the Perspective of a Connected History
Simone Holzwarth

Chapter 8. Colonial Education and Saami Resistance in Early Modern Sweden
Daniel Lindmark

Chapter 9. Constructive Orientalism: Debates on Languages and Educational Policies in Colonial India, 1830–1880
Hakim Ikhlef

Part 4: Women’s Education

Chapter 10. Raden Ajeng Kartini and Cultural Nationalism in Java
Joost Coté

Chapter 11. Women’s Education through Women’s Eyes: Literary Articulations in Colonial Western India
Meera Kosambi

Chapter 12. Connecting Literature and History of Education: Analysing the Educative Fiction of Jean Webster and Lila Majumdar Transculturally and Connotatively
Barnita Bagchi

Chapter 13. Loreto Teaching in India, 1842–2010: Transcending the Centre-Periphery Paradigm
Tim Allender

Notes on Contributors
Index