This article shows how two pioneering institutions for female education in colonial Bengal, Bethune and Sakhawat Memorial Girls’ Schools, made significant contributions to female education at a time when women’s education was mostly restricted to home teaching. The study brings out the underlying contradictions between traditional and modern approaches towards education displayed in the goals, admission process and curriculum structure of these two schools. Analysing their respective contributions demonstrates that Bethune and Sakhawat Memorial Girls’ schools produced the modern Bengali bhadramahila (well-educated woman) who secured higher education, but was also rooted in traditional values. The final section illustrates how with the expansion of education in the twentieth century, the boundaries of the reformist zeal gradually blurred, so that educated women in Bengal could fight for greater equality.

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殖民地加尔各答的绅士：上学经历

本文展示了殖民时期孟加拉女性教育的两个先驱机构白求恩和萨卡瓦纪念女校如何在女性教育主要限于家庭教学的时代为女性教育做出重大贡献。该研究揭示了这两所学校在目标、录取过程和课程结构中所表现出的传统与现代教育方法之间的潜在矛盾。分析她们各自的贡献表明，白求恩和萨卡瓦纪念女子学校培养了现代孟加拉语 bhadramahila（受过良好教育的女性），她们获得了高等教育，但也植根于传统价值观。最后一部分说明了随着 20 世纪教育的扩张，改良主义热情的界限如何逐渐模糊，