Educating Women and Non-Brahmins as ‘Loss of Nationality’: Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the Nationalist agenda in Maharashtra
Maharashtra,
India
Publisher
Centre for Women’s Development Studies
2008
English
Occasional Paper;50
Abstract
This paper deals with the nationalist discourse in Maharashtra spanning over forty years. This discourse argued that educating women and non-Brahmins would amount to a loss of nationality. The nationalists, led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak during 1881-1920 consistently opposed the establishment of girls’ schools, the imparting of education to nonBrahmins, and implementing compulsory education.