This article discusses a brief history of ‘modern’ social work in India before 1936. I present how abstract conceptions of scientifically informed and organized social work practice were brewing in colonial India, along with attempts to assemble or organize it. I use these accounts to further present certain nuances on the modalities of imported social work knowledge that dominated social work education in India after 1936.

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殖民地印度社会工作的专业化：1936 年之前印度社会工作的历史回顾

这篇文章讨论了 1936 年之前印度“现代”社会工作的简史。我展示了科学知识和有组织的社会工作实践的抽象概念是如何在殖民地印度酝酿的，以及如何组装或组织它。我使用这些描述进一步介绍了 1936 年后主导印度社会工作教育的进口社会工作知识模式的某些细微差别。