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Transplanting Liberal Education: The Foundation and Development of Liberal Arts Colleges in Western India

Author: Anne Sliwka
ISBN: 9783631390443
Binding: Paperback
Year: 2004
Pages: 359
Size: 15 x 21 cm Weight: 475 grams Price: INR 2050.00

The work examines the foundation and development of Liberal Arts Colleges in the Bombay Presidency/Western India during the 19th century. It describes the transplantation of administrative structures, conceptions of a liberal education and a syllabus from the British metropolitan area to colonial Western India. Based on the analysis of historical sources the study tries to understand the broader impact of British higher education on social and political change in Western India. The Liberal Arts Colleges within the University of Bombay are described as new arenas for social interaction producing a number of outspoken and self-confident graduates openly challenging the primacy of colonial rule in the early 20th century.

Robert L. Berner

Robert L. Berner was educated at the University of Washington (Ph.D., 1960) and was Rosebush Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Bergen. He has published articles on a variety of literary subjects and regularly reviews the writing of American Indian authors.