International Conference: Between Democracy and Progress? Development, Nation Building, and Education in early post-colonial India (1930-1964)

The Conference “Between Democracy and Progress?” is conceived as a focused conference of a group of leading scholars in the field of late colonial and early postcolonial history of the country in order to present and discuss current research work of this all-important process of transition from colony to independent statehood and the role that education in general and schooling in particular has played in this field.
The conference aims at presenting advanced work on the subject and at discussing it with a group of the current specialists on the field, including the disciplines of education, history, and history of science and technology.
The organization of the conference intends to have enough time for presentations and discussion, enabling the re-elaboration of the papers in order to produce an international edited volume