Introduction PART I 1. Historical Insights of Education in Colonial Bengal, 1757-1911 2. Schooling the Mind – In the Metropole and the Colony PART II 3. Content and Context of Textbooks in Britain 4. Content and Context of Textbooks in Bengal PART III 5. Popular Representations of the Educated Bengali Babu. Conclusion. Bibliography.
Biography
Sutapa Dutta teaches at the Department of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi, India. She has completed a two-year fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, India and has a Ph. D in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research interests and publications are focused on eighteenth and nineteenth-century writings and issues relating to education, gender identity and representation in colonial India.
