Colonial schools created cross-tradition marriages through co-education

Evidence

Being secular, twentieth-century schools they were usually co-educational, though with boys the preponderant majority. Hence love-affairs, and quite often marriages, ‘off the school-bench,’ which crossed all traditional lines. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 500

Categorization

• BMF: Co-educational colonial schools generating romance across traditional communal lines evokes the cross-community courtships threading through Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake — both dealing with identity forged in mobile, schooled modern contexts.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial education reproduced the imperial curriculum and deferred indigenization.