Subject(s): Provincialism -- Social changes -- Historiography -- Modern world -- New historiography for south Asia : Provincialism in modern India- multiple narratives of education and their plan, learning of history in Calcutta and Banaras, family school relationship and an alternative history of nineteenth century family, history of Madrasas -- Modernity community and genders : languages, families and plural learning of nineteenth- century intelligentsia, mothers and non- mothers- gendering discourse of education in south Asia, widows education and social change, Ansari women in Banaras, nature of reform in modern india- discussion of Mai- novel by Geetanjali Shree, learning modernity- technology of education in India, space of child- nation, neighborhood and home -- Postcolonialism : Scholar and her servants- further thoughts on postcolonialism and education, postcolonial school in a modern world