A brahmin scholar in training and appearance, Isvarachandra Vidyasagar was also a prominent social and educational reformer. This book situates his worldview within the context of colonialism in Bengal. Hatcher traces Vidyasagar's development from his origins in rural Bengal, through his education in Calcutta, to his work promoting and improving vernacular education. He goes on to analyze Vidyasagar's school-book pedagogy in terms of the convergence of European bourgeois morality and Sanskritic norms of world improvement. Hatcher concludes by exploring the socio-religious dimensions of Vidyasagar's worldview, especially as it relates to the reform work of the Brahmo Samaj.
- ISBN10 0195652290
- ISBN13 9780195652291
- Publish Date April 2000 (first published July 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English