Organizer: The Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University

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Why did states expand their involvement in education, when it can be cheaply provided through societal organizations, and when building a new education system involves large fiscal costs? I address this puzzle in the context of colonial states with significant fiscal constraints, identifying two key factors: the presence of indigenous institutions as education providers and the level of local resistance against state control. I argue that only when indigenous education levels and anti-colonial resistance were both sufficiently high did the state shift from relying on indigenous providers to replacing them with schools under stronger state control.

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