College Composition and Communication Feb 2009

Modernity and Empire: A Modest Analysis of Early Colonial Writing Practices

Joseph Jeyaraj

Abstract

During colonial times, various British Indian educational institutions and practices, including writing pedagogies at these institutions, introduced modernity to British India. This essay explains the manner in which some students internalized modernity and in their writings used modernist beliefs and premises to critique some precolonial Indian discourses.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2009-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20096967
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality

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