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Dalit Education in Colonial North India by MILTON BISWAS is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This article examines the educational dreams and aspirations of Dalits in colonial North India through an analysis of records from American Methodist missionary schools and Arya Samaj schools from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. It finds that these schools opened up important opportunities for Dalit education in the region. However, both the Christian missionaries and Hindu reformers of the Arya Samaj viewed Dalits primarily as a laboring community and aimed to provide a limited, practical education

Author
MILTON BISWAS
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EN