English Education and Social Reform in Late Nineteenth Century Bombay: A Case Study in the Transmission of a Cultural Ideal

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen E. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
English Education ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Higher Educational

One of the functions of higher educational systems everywhere has been the recruitment of an elite; for until the mass-education experiments of the twentieth century, highly educated members of major historical societies have been the chosen few. Similarly, the content of higher education has formed a culture the monopoly of which has served to set the highly educated apart from the common man. Hence the system of higher education in most societies forms a well-recognized institutional avenue of approach, not only to a society's high literary culture, but to prestige and power as well. These important properties of higher educational systems suggest that the content of higher education may have a social utility for the educated elite quite apart from its informational value. In this paper we examine the relationship between the college curriculum and the social reform activities of the educated elite of one Indian province, Bombay, in the late nineteenth century.

VI. Intelligence

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 26-28
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The ancient world never made the social change which would most have altered family structures: delaying marriage for women until they had finished secondary education, and replacing marriage, for some women, with a religious or professional commitment. Perhaps it seemed too dangerous, or too unkind, to deny girls an outlet for the sexual feeling which becomes intense at puberty, or to waste their brief ‘bloom’, which was thought to begin about twelve. But the main reason was that women were thought to be unsuited to higher education. Even if they had the intelligence (which was doubtful), academic study was unfeminine and a formal training in rhetoric (the main purpose of higher education) was irrelevant, and it was all too much for them. When higher education was at last opened to women, in the late nineteenth century, they were threatened with infertility and ‘brain fever’ - and some succumbed.

Book review: Krupa Shandilya, Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the late Nineteenth-century South Asian Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
Ahonaa Roy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Intimate Relations

Krupa Shandilya, Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the late Nineteenth-century South Asian Novel. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2017, 157 p., ₹525. ISBN: 978-93-8639-253-4.

The Temperance Movement in India: Politics and Social Reform

1976 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Carroll
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The temperance/prohibition agitation represents a fascinating chapter in the social and political history of India which has been largely ignored. If any notice is taken of this movement, it is generally dismissed (or elevated) as an example of the uniquely Indian process of ‘sanskritization’ or as an equally unique component of ‘Gandhianism’—in spite of the fact that the liquor question has not been without political importance in the history either of England or of the United States. And in spite of the fact that the temperance agitation in India in the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century was intimately connected with temperance agitation in England. Indeed the temperance movement in India was organized, patronized, and instructed by English temperance agitators.

Book Review: Krupa Shandilya, Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-century South Asian Novel

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Ahonaa Roy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Intimate Relations

Krupa Shandilya, Intimate Relations: Social Reform and the Late Nineteenth-century South Asian Novel. Hyderabad: Orient Balckswan Private Limited, 2017, 157 pp., ₹525. ISBN: 9789386392534

The Entry of Women into Psychiatry

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Fiona Subotsky
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Education Of Women ◽  
Psychological Medicine ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter looks at how Elizabeth Garrett Anderson combatted the views of the eminent psychiatrist Henry Maudsley on the higher education of women and their entry into the profession of medicine, and how they were finally overcome. The speciality of psychiatry in the late nineteenth century was largely reflected by participation in the Medico-Psychological Association (MPA) (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists), and the arguments over the admission of women were well documented in the Journal of Mental Science (JMS). Eventually, the persistence of the women and their male sympathizers was successful, while Maudsley’s influence waned. The first woman to gain the Certificate in Psychological Medicine (MPC) was Jane Waterston in 1888, and the first woman formally elected to membership of the MPA was Eleonora Fleury in 1894.

Creating Lasting Meaningful Social Reform

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-223
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Vested Interest ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
The One

This chapter examines the emancipations which were not the result of British or American arm-twisting. Brazil did not emancipate its slaves even after a second British naval assault — a blockade of Rio de Janeiro. What induced Brazil to change? On the one hand, the slaves mobilized themselves. The late nineteenth century saw increasing uprisings by black populations and increasing numbers of organized mass escapes as groups of slaves made runs for the frontier. On the other hand, Brazil urbanized. The urban population had no vested interest in slavery, so abolitionist groups formed in the larger Brazilian cities just as they had formed in Britain. Change in public opinion led to the abolition of serfdom in Russia as well.

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