Author: Nasreen Ahmed
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 199
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788188789917
Description
This is a broad study of the efforts at modern education for Muslim women, especially with reference to the Aligarh Movement and the initiatives inspired by it in other parts of UP, namely Lucknow, Allahabad, Rampur and Agra. The Role of Muslim leaders, both male and female, the nature of the problems they encountered and the manner in which they countered them is the major thrust of this study. In the process we are introduced to the major debates on women and education during the course of late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century.
The author breaks many stereotypes as we learn that it was the more traditional among the Muslim leadership, rather than the ‘modernisers’, who pioneered women’s education and the Muslim women themselves played a major role in nurturing the first institutions under their personal care.
Based on an extensive range of primary sources and contemporary writings in English, Urdu, Hindi and Persian, This is a definitive work in many ways, gives food for thought on developments other than its main theme and will be useful to those concerned with women’s studies, social reform, education and modernity in colonial India, particularly with reference to Muslims.
Contents
Foreword Preface Chapter I – Muslim Women’s Education in the Nineteenth Century : A Study of the Traditionalist Attitudes Chapter II – Efforts for the Education of Muslim Women, 1857-1885 Chapter III – Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women’s education, 1875-1902 Chapter IV – Female Education Section: Early Discussions, 1896-1904 Chapter V – A School for Muslim Girls at Aligarh Chapter VI – From Female Normal School to Muhammadan Girls’ School, 1906-1910 Chapter VII – A Degree College Managed by the University Chapter VIII – Establishment of Schools by Other Indigenous Efforts : Lucknow, Allahabad, Rampur and Agra Karamat Husain Muslim Girls’ P.G. College, Lucknow Hamidia Girls’ Degree College, Allahabad Taleemgah-e-Niswan, Lucknow Khursheed Girls’ Intermediate College, Rampur Saghir Fatima Muslim Girls’ Intermediate College, Agra Conclusion Bibliography