Catriona Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catriona Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catriona |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7423-8335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Have they no godfathers? Educational innovation, identity politics and the role of District Educational Councils in South India
This paper considers the role of the District Educational Councils (DECs) in expanding educational provision in the south of India in the 1920s and 1930s. The DECs were intended to provide a central co-ordinating body at a local level which would harness the enthusiasm of social reformers to work alongside state and municipal educational authorities to increase educational provision for Tamil children. The DECs gave new opportunities for philanth…
Industrious, truthful, upright and manly
This article analyses the expansion of the borstal system for young male offenders in late colonial India. Based on legislative debates and prison administration reports, it considers the ways in which young adults were defined and treated within the context of these penal institutions. It reveals how institutionalised care for young men was used to reinforce the power of middle class coercive networks; to define and produce particular forms of m…
Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies
Journal Article Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Get access Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Montreal (QC): McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £39 .64. Pp. xi + 272. Pbk. ISBN 9780228017523. Catriona Ellis Catriona Ellis University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Imagining Other Childhoods
This article considers how museums of childhood in Britain were imagined as racialized spaces, designed to simultaneously project both a notion of universal childhood and of racial hierarchies. The legacies of this work matter for efforts today to decolonize museums. The case study is the ethnographic doll collections of Edward Lovett (1852-1933), an amateur folklorist best known for his collection of home-made dolls. The ways in which these doll…
At the Limits of Cure. Bharat Jayram Venkat
Bharat Venkat’s excellent new book At the Limits of Cure has two key purposes. One is to query our understanding of the idea of “cure,” what it means to be cured or to be healthy, why this is applied to some diseases and not to others, how we conceptualize incurability, and how these ideas change over time and space. He traces the ways in which pain and cure were experienced and were given meaning in people’s social worlds; explores the different…
If You Cannot Feed the Body of a Child You Cannot Feed the Brain’
In 1925 the Madras Municipal Corporation introduced an innovative scheme to provide free midday meals for poor schoolchildren in the city. These meals were designed to both improve the physical health of the schoolchildren and contribute to their educational attainments. This paper examines the advice of nutritional experts at the Coonoor Centre for Nutritional Research and the new scientific emphasis on diet and malnutrition in South India. It t…
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Jessica Hinchy’s book Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India considers the relationship between the colonial state and the transgender Hijra community. Since 2014 Hijras have been officially recognised as the third gender in India but in the nineteenth century were known to the British as a small community of eunuchs primarily identified by wearing female clothing and associated with public performance and blessings of fertility at wedd…
Remembering pre-independence childhoods in South India
This article discusses the potential of autobiography for understanding histories of childhood, the effects of late-colonial social policy and the experience of change in India in the decades immediately preceding independence in 1947. This was an era characterized by both increased state intervention in the lives of poor Indian children and the growing influence of universalizing notions about modern childhood. Based on a detailed study of 55 au…
Snapshots' of the classroom
This article looks at the remembered experiences of children who went to school in the late colonial period and examines the extent to which these memories relate to the official literature of the time and the historiographical debates surrounding education. The precise focus is memories of formal elementary education in the Madras Presidency 1882-1947 as described in autobiographies. This includes a study of how children regarded the space of th…
Education for All
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Asia Section. Despite the extensive literature on the history of education in colonial India, historians have confined their arguments to very narrow themes linked to colonial epistemological dominance and education as a means of control, resistance and dialogue. These tend to mirror the debates of the colonial period, particularly regarding the Anglicist‐Orientalist controversy. This …
Education for All
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Asia Section. Despite the extensive literature on the history of education in colonial India, historians have confined their arguments to very narrow themes linked to colonial epistemological dominance and education as a means of control, resistance and dialogue. These tend to mirror the debates of the colonial period, particularly regarding the Anglicist‐Orientalist controversy. This …
Snapshots' of the classroom
This article looks at the remembered experiences of children who went to school in the late colonial period and examines the extent to which these memories relate to the official literature of the time and the historiographical debates surrounding education. The precise focus is memories of formal elementary education in the Madras Presidency 1882-1947 as described in autobiographies. This includes a study of how children regarded the space of th…
Education for All
This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Asia Section. Despite the extensive literature on the history of education in colonial India, historians have confined their arguments to very narrow themes linked to colonial epistemological dominance and education as a means of control, resistance and dialogue. These tend to mirror the debates of the colonial period, particularly regarding the Anglicist‐Orientalist controversy. This …
Snapshots' of the classroom
This article looks at the remembered experiences of children who went to school in the late colonial period and examines the extent to which these memories relate to the official literature of the time and the historiographical debates surrounding education. The precise focus is memories of formal elementary education in the Madras Presidency 1882-1947 as described in autobiographies. This includes a study of how children regarded the space of th…
Remembering pre-independence childhoods in South India
This article discusses the potential of autobiography for understanding histories of childhood, the effects of late-colonial social policy and the experience of change in India in the decades immediately preceding independence in 1947. This was an era characterized by both increased state intervention in the lives of poor Indian children and the growing influence of universalizing notions about modern childhood. Based on a detailed study of 55 au…
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Jessica Hinchy’s book Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India considers the relationship between the colonial state and the transgender Hijra community. Since 2014 Hijras have been officially recognised as the third gender in India but in the nineteenth century were known to the British as a small community of eunuchs primarily identified by wearing female clothing and associated with public performance and blessings of fertility at wedd…
If You Cannot Feed the Body of a Child You Cannot Feed the Brain’
In 1925 the Madras Municipal Corporation introduced an innovative scheme to provide free midday meals for poor schoolchildren in the city. These meals were designed to both improve the physical health of the schoolchildren and contribute to their educational attainments. This paper examines the advice of nutritional experts at the Coonoor Centre for Nutritional Research and the new scientific emphasis on diet and malnutrition in South India. It t…
At the Limits of Cure. Bharat Jayram Venkat
Bharat Venkat’s excellent new book At the Limits of Cure has two key purposes. One is to query our understanding of the idea of “cure,” what it means to be cured or to be healthy, why this is applied to some diseases and not to others, how we conceptualize incurability, and how these ideas change over time and space. He traces the ways in which pain and cure were experienced and were given meaning in people’s social worlds; explores the different…
Industrious, truthful, upright and manly
This article analyses the expansion of the borstal system for young male offenders in late colonial India. Based on legislative debates and prison administration reports, it considers the ways in which young adults were defined and treated within the context of these penal institutions. It reveals how institutionalised care for young men was used to reinforce the power of middle class coercive networks; to define and produce particular forms of m…
Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies
Journal Article Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India Get access Nandini Bhattacharya, Disparate Remedies: Making Medicines in Modern India, Montreal (QC): McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. £39 .64. Pp. xi + 272. Pbk. ISBN 9780228017523. Catriona Ellis Catriona Ellis University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Go…
Imagining Other Childhoods
This article considers how museums of childhood in Britain were imagined as racialized spaces, designed to simultaneously project both a notion of universal childhood and of racial hierarchies. The legacies of this work matter for efforts today to decolonize museums. The case study is the ethnographic doll collections of Edward Lovett (1852-1933), an amateur folklorist best known for his collection of home-made dolls. The ways in which these doll…
Have they no godfathers? Educational innovation, identity politics and the role of District Educational Councils in South India
This paper considers the role of the District Educational Councils (DECs) in expanding educational provision in the south of India in the 1920s and 1930s. The DECs were intended to provide a central co-ordinating body at a local level which would harness the enthusiasm of social reformers to work alongside state and municipal educational authorities to increase educational provision for Tamil children. The DECs gave new opportunities for philanth…
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