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Contribution of Missionary Education in Colonial Andhra: Social Change among the Depressed Classes

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Department of History, Assam University (Central University), Diphu Campus, Assam, INDIA

Res. J.Educational Sci., Volume 3, Issue (7), Pages 7-15, September,1 (2015)

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to assess the nature and growth of Missionary education in study of social change among the depressed classes in colonial Andhra. The missionary education played a crucial role in bringing social change among the downtrodden section in the 19th century. Though it was initiated in the need of proselytization, this was by no means confined to this purpose alone and took the general interests and needs of the society as well. Since the process of social change was always linked to the growth of education, the missionary education had created a new social consciousness among the downtrodden sections that led to uphold the sprit among them to fight against Brahmanism in the later period of Andhra region. Due to new social consciousness created by the British rule and the western education to some extent questioned social order of caste system and broke down the intellectuals’ monopoly of Brahmins and non-Brahmin upper caste domination as well. This could be seen as dentity struggles in the post-Independent Andhra.

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