Reading Mohini Mohun Majumder’s 'Muk-Shiksha' Special Education in Colonial India
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Keywords
Disability History, decolonial
Abstract
The paper studies a 1903 text titled Muk-Shiksha to make three arguments. It examines the colonised disabled subject with respect to networks of exchange between the colony and the metropole, the ideological reaches of oralism in the colony, and the circulation of ideas about special education through vernacular print cultures.
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TIRTHA Deb, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
Tirtha Pratim Deb is a doctoral student at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. His research studies the cultural construction of disability within the context of late colonial India.