عنوان

Postcolonial challenges to madrassa education reform in India: Bureaucracy, politics, resistance, and cooptation

Number

TL48246

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Postcolonial challenges to madrassa education reform in India: Bureaucracy, politics, resistance, and cooptation

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Huma Kidwai

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Bajaj, Monisha

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Teachers College, Columbia University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

290

Text of Note

Committee members: Burnette, Denise; Riehl, Carolyn; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-76914-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ed.D.

Discipline of degree

International and Transcultural Studies

Body granting the degree

Teachers College, Columbia University

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This qualitative study examines ways in which the Indian State and Islamic madrassas interact with each other, and attempts to shed light on the various social, political and economic factors that determine the nature of this interaction. The study is located within the existing policy context generated by the government of India to "modernize" madrassas and to improve the socio-economic conditions of Muslims, who constitute the largest minority population in the country. This research argues that the present relationship between the government and madrassas is reminiscent of the colonial relationship between these two institutions. This hypothesis is based on facts about attitudes of resistance and assertions of religious identity developed in response to cultural, economic, and political oppression by the British government, which has been transposed onto Hindu majority rule since India's independence in 1947.

History; Religious education; Education policy

Subject Term

Social sciences;Education;Cooptation;Education reform;India;Islamic education;Madrassa;Postcolonial

Chapman, Matthieu Aaron

Bajaj, Monisha

Subdivision

International and Transcultural Studies

Teachers College, Columbia University

Call Number

1690497946; 3704487

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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