International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities around the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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Autor/in	Ajmera, Param S.
Titel	International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Quelle	(2023), (202 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, City University of New York
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	979-8-3795-0191-4
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Foreign Students; Indians; Power Structure; Nationalism; Colonialism; Aesthetics; Travel; Foreign Countries; Freedom; Personal Narratives; Essays; Doctoral Dissertations; Speeches; Student Publications; Records (Forms); Educational History; Political Attitudes; College Students; Racism; Study Abroad; Student Attitudes; Doctoral Students; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Inder; Nationalismus; Kolonialismus; Ästhetik; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Ausland; Freiheit; Erlebniserzählung; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Studentenzeitung; Formularsammlung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Collegestudent; Rassismus; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Schülerverhalten; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	This dissertation examines the writings and experiences of five Indian international students in the United States during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By drawing attention to these students, I attend to the ways in which notions of freedom, progress, and inclusivity associated with American higher education, and liberalism more generally, are related to structures of racialized and colonial dispossession in India. I build these arguments by reading archival sources such as university administrative records, student publications, personal and official correspondence, as well as understudied aesthetic works, such as memoirs, travel narratives, essays, doctoral dissertations, and public lectures. These historical materials show us how Indian international students oriented themselves amidst the shifting power relations between British colonialism, Indian anticolonial nationalism, and American higher education. I explore how the American university became a site that both encouraged Indian international students' anticolonial political work, while simultaneously managing and curtailing their sense of political possibility. I discuss how some Indian international students were drawn to the emancipatory tendencies of liberalism that they encountered on campus, but they never pushed their analysis to probe the ways in which racism and colonialism created the material conditions that guaranteed rights, liberties, and economic prosperity only for some sections of society. Conducting a historical analysis of the Indian international student therefore reveals the American university to be a paradoxical space. On the one hand, we find ample evidence that suggests that international students were welcomed into the campus community and supported in their educational and political endeavors by their alma mater. On the other hand, the international student's experiences also reveal how racism operated both within and outside the university. Furthermore, the international student draws attention towards how the larger context of British colonialism in India pushed students to attend American universities, and correspondingly, how the American exceptionalist nationalist ideology functioning on campuses pulled Indian students into their orbit of influence. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01