Knowledge and Power

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Knowledge and Power presents the first comprehensive account of how universities held seats in Britain's Parliament between the 17th and 20th centuries and how the idea of university representation spread throughout the British Empire. Chapters reveal the ways that the character, functions, and political significance of this little-examined institution altered over time in response to changing circumstances in both education and government. Topics explored include the role of university constituencies in the political system, and how it was widely debated in relation to a host of fundamental constitutional concerns, including the bases of representation, the extent of political inclusion, religious pluralism, and women's suffrage. Questions of university representation also converged with processes of colonial self-government, mechanisms of imperial rule, and the Indian independence movement. Knowledge and Power reveals how university representation - viewed by its opponents as an inequitable constitutional relic and by it supporters as a means of leavening politics with learning - played an illuminating if often paradoxical role in Britain's and the Empire's political modernization.