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- ISSN: 0010-096X
- E-ISSN: 1939-9006
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Modernity and Empire: A Modest Analysis of Early Colonial Writing Practices
- Source: College Composition & Communication, Volume 60, Issue 3, Feb 2009, p. 468 - 492
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- 01 Feb 2009
Abstract
During colonial times, various British Indian educational institutions and practices, including writing pedagogies at these institutions, introduced modernity to British India. This essay explains the manner in which some students internalized modernity and in their writings used modernist beliefs and premises to critique some precolonial Indian discourses.
© 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of English