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Seth, Sanjay – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
From the 1830s the colonial government in India became the agency for the promotion of "Western education", that is, education that sought to disseminate modern, Western, rational knowledge through modern institutions and pedagogic processes. This paper examines a historical episode in which certain key categories of modern Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Western Civilization, Educational History, Epistemology