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    The duality and the suffering of Macaulay's Middleman
    (BRAC University, 2019-08) Rayhan, Maruf; Noman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad
    This paper is about Macaulay's middleman who worked as an interpreter between the colonized and the colonizer. Macaulay proposed an educational policy for the Indian Subordinate. He wanted to establish the colonial school to make the middleman who would help them to govern the colonized. There were two characteristics of the middleman. The middleman should be native in blood. But he would be English in taste. Because of his characteristic, the middleman had access to belonging the colonizer side as well as the colonized side. But belonging both sides created ambiguity. It was difficult for the middleman to decide where he belonged. It also created ambivalence position. Therefore, the middleman faced duality. In V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Tagore’s Tota Kahini, we have two different middlemen who were from a different geographical location still both faced the same kind of duality.
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    Using educational thoughts as a policy of decolonization
    (BRAC University, 2016-08) Rayhan, Maruf; Islam, Syed Manzoorul
    Rabindranath Tagore was a prominent thinker in his time. He was not only a great poet but also a great educationalist. He did not write any educational treatise. His experiment at Santiniketon was the root of his educational thoughts. He was inspired by the Vedanta and Upanishad philosophy. That is why; we can find it in his educational thoughts. He emphasized to involve with one‟s immediate surroundings seeking knowledge. He believed that mother tongue should be the medium of education. He did not believe in any cultural superiority. He believed that only rural development could make the whole country developed. That is why he proposed rural based education to rural reconstruction. He focused one‟s inner perfection. He also pointed out the importance of self-realization which should be the aim of education. He depicted how a school created the prison in the name of education. He was also criticized Macaulay‟s “Minute on Education”. He showed how western educational policy used as a policy of neo-colonialism. He prescribed a new discourse to overcome it.