Schools, Colleges and the Creation of a Suburb: An Education History of Nineteenth Century Uttarpara, c.1846-1887
Akash Bhattacharya, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
The project seeks to use colonial education as a lens to trace long-term histories of urbanism in the vicinity of Calcutta. The production of the colonial city through the establishment of schools and colleges which drew people from the countryside and small towns is well-researched. Our intention is to shift the history of urbanism away from the city as such, and trace the networks of circulation – of people, objects and ideas – connected to education, between the cities, the suburbs and the latter’s rural hinterland. As part of the project, we are presently engaged in examining the rise of Uttarpara as an education hub and a suburb of Calcutta in the nineteenth century. How did education produce a space as a suburb? That is the key question that we seek to address. In doing so, we also place the history of education within a wider history of what “progress” meant in colonial times.
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mwfdelhi (January 6, 2023). Schools, Colleges and the Creation of a Suburb: An Education History of Nineteenth Century Uttarpara, c.1846-1887. Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF Delhi). Retrieved March 27, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rpsp