Dr Shahid Siddiqui

Dr Shahid Siddiqui

  • Jinnah’s visionary youth

    Throughout world history, nations that set education as their foremost priority have had an uninterrupted record of development and progress. Due to...

  • Frontier and resistance

    In my previous articles on these pages I referred to several movements of resistance against the British Empire in India. These movements were...

  • Colonisation and resistance

    In my previous article, Colonialism and resistance , I briefly described the Anglo-Indian battles, suggesting that the process of colonisation was...

  • Colonisation and resistance

    The colonisation of India by the British was not straight and smooth. A stiff resistance was put up by the local states that engaged East India...

  • Imperialism and indigenous education

    In The Prison Notebooks, Gramsci builds his argument that hegemony can be attained through political or civil society. The political society uses a...

  • Education in pre-British Punjab

    In my write up, ‘Indian Indigenous Education’, published in these pages on March 21, 2016, I tried to confront some popular stereotypes...

  • Indigenous Indian education

    India was portrayed by the colonisers as a dark and mysterious land where people were illiterate and uncultured. The positional superiority enjoyed...

  • Development: the imperialist way

    Colonialism and imperialism share a common design for the expansion and control of the economy and political systems of other countries. The history...

  • The politics of education

    The conservative paradigm of education believes in the fixity of knowledge and focuses on its transmission from one generation to the next...