This paper studies the provision of schooling in British India from 1850 to 1917, when education policy was under the direct control of the East India Company and the British Crown. Although colonial policy made several recommendations to increase mass schooling, the growth of primary education generally lagged behind secondary education over most of the period. In addition to official policy, ...

A fter the British conquered Bengal and eventually the whole of India, they set out to administer the colony. In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the relation of people to land for production (and not for revenue receiving, household living, etc.), and (2) the caste system of India, viz. the jati stratifi cation of society. Soon they realized th...

Twenty-five years ago, the British Empire was at best a minor presence in British historical scholarship. Although the field of imperial studies was showing signs of renewed vigor, British history invariably meant the history of metropolitan Britain, and “Britain” all too often served as a synonym for the union’s English core. Today, the situation is practically reversed. Imperial themes pervad...

Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Quit India” (“Hindustan Chod Do” in Urdu, 1953) represents the relationship between Indians and British colonists Anglo-Indian by examining life of Eric William Jackson, a official pre-Independence India an unemployed outcast displaced person following Independence who lives with his working-class lover Sakku bai, narrator’s outlook towards family. The ex-British J...