Education And Caste In India

Author : Ghanshyam Shah,Kanak Kanti Bagchi,Vishwanatha Kalaiah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000088533

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Education and Caste in India by Ghanshyam Shah,Kanak Kanti Bagchi,Vishwanatha Kalaiah Pdf

Seven decades since Indian Independence, education takes the centre stage in every major discussion on development, especially when we talk about social exclusion, Dalits and reservations today. This book examines social inclusion in the education sector in India for Scheduled Castes (SCs). The volume: · Foregrounds the historical struggles of the SCs to understand why the quest for education is so central to shaping SC consciousness and aspirations; · Works with exhaustive state-level studies with a view to assessing commonalities and differences in the educational status of SCs today; · Takes stock of the policymaking and extent of implementations across Indian states to understand the challenges faced in different scenarios; · Seeks to analyse the differential in existing economic conditions, and other structural constraints, in relation to access to quality educational facilities; · Examines the social perceptions and experiences of SC students as they live now. A major study, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education, sociology and social anthropology, development studies and South Asian studies.

Author : L.V. Reddy
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dalits
ISBN : 8171418724

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Education For Dalits by L.V. Reddy Pdf

Contents: Introduction, School Education, Government s Role, The Drop-outs, College Education, The Concessions, Societal Factors, Protection under Constitution, Conclusion.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 8125021922

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Education and the Disprivileged by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

This book addresses the familiar issue of unequal access to education in a new perspective. In this regard, whether one looks at gender or caste or tribes or class differences, the gap between the privileged and the dispriviliged is a matter of everyday experience. In what manner and form are these asymmetries reflected in the domain of education is the question at the core of this collection of essays. This volume is likely to be useful to those interested in understanding the interface between education and society in India as well as in other developing countries.

Author : Maxime Dessy
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783640565740

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Scheduled Castes and The Access to Education. How Fair is India? by Maxime Dessy Pdf

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 19/20, Aarhus School of Business, course: Education Civique / Sociale, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I try to analyse the fairness of Scheduled Classes’ access to education. The paper starts with giving some introductive information about the cast system. Putting together the findings of several academic articles, different factors are then discussed such as the literacy level and school attendance of Dalit Children, the discriminative behaviours they face, some other important variables, the governmental initiatives and the discrimination on the labour market. It appears clearly that caste membership is still an important discriminative factor with regards to Dalit children’s access to education.

Author : Sreedharan Radhakrishnan,Ranjana Kumari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030884865

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Impact of Education on Scheduled Caste Youth in India by Sreedharan Radhakrishnan,Ranjana Kumari Pdf

Author : Ajantha Subramanian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674243484

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The Caste of Merit by Ajantha Subramanian Pdf

How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.

Author : Shailaja Paik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317673316

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Dalit Women's Education in Modern India by Shailaja Paik Pdf

Inspired by egalitarian doctrines, the Dalit communities in India have been fighting for basic human and civic rights since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this book, Shailaja Paik focuses on the struggle of Dalit women in one arena - the realm of formal education – and examines a range of interconnected social, cultural and political questions. What did education mean to women? How did changes in women’s education affect their views of themselves and their domestic work, public employment, marriage, sexuality, and childbearing and rearing? What does the dissonance between the rhetoric and practice of secular education tell us about the deeper historical entanglement with modernity as experienced by Dalit communities? Dalit Women's Education in Modern India is a social and cultural history that challenges the triumphant narrative of modern secular education to analyse the constellation of social, economic, political and historical circumstances that both opened and closed opportunities to many Dalits. By focusing on marginalised Dalit women in modern Maharashtra, who have rarely been at the centre of systematic historical enquiry, Paik breathes life into their ideas, expectations, potentials, fears and frustrations. Addressing two major blind spots in the historiography of India and of the women’s movement, she historicises Dalit women’s experiences and constructs them as historical agents. The book combines archival research with historical fieldwork, and centres on themes including slum life, urban middle classes, social and sexual labour, and family, marriage and children to provide a penetrating portrait of the actions and lives of Dalit women. Elegantly conceived and convincingly argued, Dalit Women's Education in Modern India will be invaluable to students of History, Caste Politics, Women and Gender Studies, Education Studies, Urban Studies and Asian studies.

Author : Alexander Hay Benton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Caste
ISBN : UCAL:$B49864

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Indian Moral Instruction and Caste Problems by Alexander Hay Benton Pdf

Author : Paul Ghuman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317171409

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British Untouchables by Paul Ghuman Pdf

Dalits, formerly called 'untouchables', remain the most oppressed community in India, and indeed in South Asia and have, until recently, been denied human and civic rights. On emigration to the UK and other Western countries they faced a double disadvantage: caste discrimination and racial discrimination from 'white' society. However, in the late 1990s, second-generation Dalit professionals challenged their caste status and Brahmanism in the West and in South Asia. This work provides a major study on the issues facing the education of Dalit children and young people growing up in Britain. The book is based on extensive fieldwork and uses a qualitative research methodology, including in-depth interviews with parents, teachers and children, and detailed observations in homes, schools and places of worship e.g. gurdwaras. It offers a detailed view of areas such as socialisation of children, schooling and education, examination success, parental perceptions of education, bilingualism, acculturation patterns, cultural conflicts and caste and social identities. Central to this work, too, is a thorough introduction to the religious concepts that underpin the notion of 'untouchability' in Hinduism. This is a significant contribution to this under-researched community by a scholar who is one of the leading authorities on the education of South Asian children in Britain.

Author : Vimal P. Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : College students
ISBN : UOM:39015006966173

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The Educational Problems of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe School and College Students in India by Vimal P. Shah Pdf

Author : Helen Schropp
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783668276505

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India's Education System. History, current issues and major public initiatives by Helen Schropp Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 1,7, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: This paper provides an overview of the current situation of school education in India while its main part will focus on major problems the education system is facing. Firstly, the paper gives information on the historical background on the education system in the Republic which helps to understand the present-day schooling system which is described in more detail in the second part of the paper. Subsequently, the paper focuses on major issues the schooling system is facing nowadays and places them when possible against the achievements and problems of other BRIC economies. Following this, an outline about major public initiatives that are trying to tackle prevalent problems in the schooling system is presented.

Author : Vimal P. Shah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-08-01
Category : India
ISBN : 0836410106

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The Educational Problems of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe School and College Students in India by Vimal P. Shah Pdf

Author : G. D. Bhatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dalits
ISBN : UOM:39015069114877

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Educational Development of Scheduled Castes by G. D. Bhatt Pdf

With reference to India.

Author : Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199088652

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Religion, Community, and Education by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam Pdf

Religion-based educational disparities, especially relative educational backwardness amongst the Muslims in India, are the focus of serious debate. The 2006 Sachar Committee Report rekindled public interest and attention in this important issue. Yet, considerable gaps exist in our understanding of the dynamics of religion and access to education. In Religion, Community, and Education, Alam uses a spatial approach and multilayered analytical framework to understand educational disparities in schooling between the Hindus and Muslims in Bihar. The study draws upon national-level data as well as focused fieldwork carried out in Bihar's Patna and Purnia districts. This book highlights the larger historical trajectories that have shaped educational development as well as the forms of disparities therein vis-à-vis the minorities in India. It contends that the relative educational backwardness of the Muslims reflects underlying socio-economic patterns that are often overlooked. Thus, the Muslims should not be seen merely as homogeneous socio-cultural aggregates.

Author : A. R. Kamat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015027539959

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Education and Social Change in India by A. R. Kamat Pdf