Education & Children
| Books: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education. Delhi: Oxford University Press | |
| 2001 | Edited. Exploring Indian Precolonial and Colonial Intellectual History. Delhi: Sage. Special issue of Indian Economic and Social History Review 38, 1 | |
| 2000 | Lessons from Schools: A History of Education in Banaras. Delhi and Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage | |
| Articles and Chapters: | ||
| Forthcoming | "The Ramlila Project: Indian Identities in an Age of Globalization." In William Ascher and John Heffron, ed. Change and Persistence in a Globalizing Society: The Case of Asia and the Pacific. | |
| Forthcoming | "A Postcolonial School in a Modern World." In Derek Mulenga, ed. Postcolonialism and Education: Challenging Traditions and Disrupting Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan | |
| 2007 | "Gender in the Madrasas." In Jamal Malik, ed. Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? NY: Routledge | |
| 2007 | "Age and Control: The Nation, the Neighbourhood and the Home." In Karen Malone, ed. Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration of Young People's Use of Space. New Delhi: Concept Publicshing Company | |
| 2006 | The Scholar and her Servants: Towards a Postcolonial Anthropology". India Review | |
| 2006 | "Provincialism in Modern India: the Multiple Narratives of Education and their Pain". Modern Asian Studies | |
| 2005 | "Mothers and Non-Mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in India". Gender and History | |
| 2004 | "Children in South Asia: in Encyclopaedia of Children and Childhood | |
| 2003 | "A Postcolonial Site in a Modern World". Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) July | |
| 2002 | "History in the Madrasas". Seminar | |
| 2001 | "Children and the Partition: History for Citizenship" in Suvir Kaul, ed. The Partitions of Memory. Delhi: Permanent Black | |
| 2001 | "Learning Modernity? The Technologies of Education in India" in Rene Collingnon and Mamadou Diouf, eds., Les Jeunes: Hantise de l'espace public dans les societes du Sud? Special issue, Autrepart | |
| 2001 | "Languages, Families and the Plural Learning of the Nineteenth-century Intelligentsia" in N. Kumar, ed., Explorations in the Intellectual History of Colonial and Precolonial India. Special issue of Indian Economic and Social History Review (IESHR) | |
| 1998 | "Why Does Nationalist Education Fail?" in S. Bhattacharya, ed., The Contested Terrain: Perspectives on Education. Delhi: Orient Longman | |
| 1998 | "Lessons from Contemporary Schools". Sociological Bulletin | |
| 1997 | "The Modernization of Sanskrit Education in Banaras" in W. Radice, ed., Swami Vivekanand and the Modernization of Hinduism. Delhi: Oxford University Press | |
| 1996 | "Religion and Ritual in Indian Schools: Banaras from the 1880s to the 1940s" in Nigel Crook, ed., The Transmission of Knowledge in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press | |
Other interests, work experience, and research projects
I am presently completing two books:
Indian Arts for Indian Children
Pain: The Multiple failures of Education in India
I have been writing popular pieces on education, called "The A to Z of Education in India"
I do curriculum development and teachers' training at Vidyashram--the Southpoint School, Varanasi, India, and the Centre for Postcolonial Education, Varanasi, both run by NIRMAN (www.nirman.info)