ABSTRACT
Schooling the subcontinent provides a comprehensive and integrated overview on education in colonial India. This chapter argues to limit the analysis of the topic not to a dialectic of imperialism and nationalism. Rather, considering various scholarly shifts in recent years, it claims that educational institutions and agendas, students and pupils, and bodies of knowledge were shaped by a complex interplay of numerous factors, shining light on aspects such as religion, social hierarchies, informal education, and complex spatial interconnections in the formation of educational experiences on the subcontinent and beyond.
