Critiques of Colonial Education in Krupabai Satthianadhanís Fiction

Abstract

Postcolonial critiques have made us more keenly aware in recent years of the imperial ideologies which shaped education in the colonies. At an obvious level these shaping ideologies included the control and management of the imperial domain, and the rendering of the colonial subject as a civilized being. Yet, we have become more alert in recent years to the complex and often conflicting roles of the state proponents, native elites, missionaries and educationalists in the delivery of colonial education through its various agencies.