title: The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School of Lahore:  A Study of Educational Reform in Colonial  Punjab, ca. 1885-1925.
creator: Kakkar, Ankur
subject: 900
subject: 900 Geography and history
subject: 950
subject: 950 General history of Asia Far East
description: It is widely acknowledged that the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic institution was an “entirely novel” enterprise in the province of Punjab since it was wholly managed and staffed by Indians. But the most novel and unique characteristic of the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic movement, as this PhD dissertation shows, was the manner in which it syncretised ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ education. In this dissertation, it is this synthesis of ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ features that I have analysed by critically examining various aspects of the D.A.V. movement such as the aims and ideals of its founders, the genesis and growth of its institutional network between 1880 and 1920, the heterogenous nature of its financial model and the nature of its curriculum. Because the D.A.V. movement was one of the most popular indigenous educational enterprises of colonial India, I have tabulated and described the vast network of D.A.V. schools and colleges that were spread across Northern India in the early twentieth century. But the primary focus of this dissertation is the question of novelty of the D.A.V. education model, as manifested in its unique combination of ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ features.
date: 2021
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29642/1/Ankur_Kakkar_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00029642
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-296425
identifier:   Kakkar, Ankur  (2021) The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic School of Lahore: A Study of Educational Reform in Colonial Punjab, ca. 1885-1925.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/29642/
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language: eng