Nilanjana Paul – författare

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling, eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School, Lady Brabourne College, Eden College, Calcutta, and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them.An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India, the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, religion, education, Partition studies, minority studies, imperialism, colonialism, and South Asian history.

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling, eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School, Lady Brabourne College, Eden College, Calcutta, and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them.An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India, the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, religion, education, Partition studies, minority studies, imperialism, colonialism, and South Asian history.

The collection of essays studies the twentieth century Indian revolutionary, writer and thinker, Manabendra Nath Roy's life and ideological trajectories by using new archival records, novel interpretations of previously used sources and other published materials. The life of M. N. Roy (1887-1954), as he is popularly known, was framed by resistance to the overwhelming presence of European territorial empires and imperialism in Asia. The essays provide a nuanced view of M. N. Roy’s changing ideological moorings and the complex dimensions of his long political journey that started with revolutionary visions and ended in Cold War-era radical liberal humanism.The chapters question the existing perceptions of Roy which are recycled as staples of mainstream academia, and re-examines his relationship with early Indian nationalism, Marxism and Leninism, as well as the Cold War cultural apparatus on the basis of new sources and analytical standpoints, bringing out the multi-layered and contradictory dimensions of his political legacy. Beyond hagiography, the anthology provides fresh perspectives on Roy’s mutating political positions as he remained committed to India’s freedom from colonial rule, anti-fascism and envisaged alternative routes to decolonisation.The book will be of interest to historians, scholars, academics, and activists engaged with the history and politics of anti-imperialism and decolonisation, left history, communist history, socialist history, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Communist International, Asian revolutionaries, Colonial Bengal and post-Independence India, Marxist approaches to twentieth century history, connected histories of Class and Caste divisions, Race, Gender and Imperialisms, and the transcontinental diffusion of ideas and movements. It will also serve as a research resource and reference book for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in history and political science.