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Introduction

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 1 –22

[This chapter introduces women’s education in the nineteenth century focusing on initiatives of various stakeholders like missionaries, Indian social reformers and the colonial government. It then introduces the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya (Sikh Girls College), the field of this study and...

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Girls’ Education in Nineteenth-Century Punjab

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 23 –40

[The focus of this chapter is on girls’ education in nineteenth-century Punjab. It underlines how medium of instruction influenced the state of girls’ education. Introduction of Urdu as a medium of instruction at the school level hindered girls’ education as it was not the home language. The...

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Situating the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 41 –65

[The Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya has a significant history that needs to be contextualized. This chapter has emerged out of primary and secondary sources, oral interviews and presents the various historical ups and downs of the school. The SKM motivated girls to gain education at a time when...

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The SKM: Post-independence Decades

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 67 –78

[Years of conflict and chaos resulting from the partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, in 1947 to the riots of 1984 (the anti-Sikh riot of 1984 was a major watershed in the history of inter-community relationship in post-independent India. Scores of Sikhs were killed...

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Contextualizing SKM

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 79 –100

[This chapter discusses the infrastructure of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya and its association with Sikh culture. Through narratives of school teachers, students and parents, the chapter tries to understand the school in holistic manner. While teachers are upper caste, majority of the students...

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The ‘Good’ Student

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 101 –114

[The construction of ‘good student’ is the pedagogical ideal of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya. Students’ habitus is shaped by a complex regime of discipline and punishment. They learn to imbibe the school’s dominant ideology in order to gain appreciation. The Khalsa Assembly held each day in the...

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Pedagogical Trajectories: Teacher and Pupil Strategies at SKM

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 115 –130

[This chapter focuses on the pedagogical practices at the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya. Borrowing from Bernstein, it uses instrumental order to explain its effects on the school practices and processes. Rote memorization is the pedagogical rule. The examination-oriented education system exerts...

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Gurmat: Religious Pedagogy and Socialization

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 131 –151

[At the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Gurmat education is one of the main components of the teaching–learning process. Such a pedagogy instils basic religious values and attitudes among the students. They learn to follow these aspects in their daily life. It becomes a yardstick to evaluate themselves...

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Conclusion(s)

Bassi, Tripti

Pages: 153 –165

[The chapter presents a brief summary of the study alongside discussing the central arguments. It begins by chronicling the course of women’s education in nineteenth-century Punjab. Then, it analytically showcases its chief contributions through various continuities and changes that have...

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