Museumizing and education of the colonized were launched together as twin colonial projects

Evidence

The Oudheidkundige Commissie was established by the same government that (in 1901) inaugurated the new ‘Ethical Policy’ for the Indies, a policy that for the first time aimed to establish a Western-style system of education for substantial numbers of the colonized. Governor-General Paul Doumer (1897–1902) created both the Directorate of Museums and Historical Monuments of Indochina and the colony’s modern educational apparatus. In Burma, the huge expansion of higher education – which between 1900 and 1940 increased the number of secondary-school students eightfold, from 27,401 to 233,543, and of college students twentyfold, from 115 to 2,365 – began just as the Archaeological Department of Burma swung into action. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 708

Categorization

• XREF: Scaffolds how colonial institutions jointly produced the educated native subject who becomes the nationalist — core to the Islamophobia field’s account of anti-colonial nationalism. — connects to: Colonial education reproduced the imperial curriculum and deferred indigenization.; Postcolonial museums inherit the political functions of colonial archaeology — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 669; Colonial states museumized sacred sites to legitimize themselves as guardians of tradition — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 673 (+1 more)

Related

• Postcolonial museums inherit the political functions of colonial archaeology (similarity 0.79)
• Monument restoration served as colonial propaganda proclaiming native incapacity for self-rule (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial archaeology gave postcolonial states an inherited depth of field. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Postcolonial museums inherit the political functions of colonial archaeology #expands (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 669
• Colonial states museumized sacred sites to legitimize themselves as guardians of tradition #exemplifies (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 673