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Female Deselection in India

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The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India’s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data and interviews, this book explores girl child deselection through cultural neglect, female ... Read more

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Higher Education in India

In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity

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India has a large network of around 634 universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 teachers spread across the length and breadth of the country.Despite its massive geographical reach, higher education in India has had its share of problems.This volume is a collection of essays which discusses these problems like inclusiveness and the impact of reservation on education, the problems of ... Read more

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The Elementary Education System in India

Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

Edited by Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...

This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Read more

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This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
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Indian Tribes in Transition

The need for reorientation

by Yogesh Atal ...

India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence. Despite the developmental model that the country opted for, the hangover of the Raj continued to encourage fissiparous tendencies dividing the Indian populace on the basis of religion, ethnicity and caste hierarchy.This book argues for the need to develop a fresh approach to dismantling the ... Read more

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India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence. Despite the developmental model that the country opted for, the hangover of the Raj continued to encourage fissiparous tendencies dividing the Indian populace on the basis of religion, ethnicity and caste hierarchy.This book argues for the need to develop a fresh approach to dismantling the
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Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India

Law, Labour and Culture in Action

by Reena Patel ...

Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share ... Read more

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Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share
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The Grammar of Caste

Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

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Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in ... Read more

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Education and Inequality in India

A Classroom View

by Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij ...

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Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social ... Read more

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Doing Sociology in India

Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

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This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence ... Read more

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This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence
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Education as Development

Deprivation, Poverty, Dispossession

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This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India. Education as Development: Deprivation, Poverty, Dispossession is a significant new addition for understanding educational and economic setbacks experienced by the marginalized in India.The volume:Focuses on how the social, economic, and education systems have evolved over time in India and identifies the scope of ... Read more

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This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India. Education as Development: Deprivation, Poverty, Dispossession is a significant new addition for understanding educational and economic setbacks experienced by the marginalized in India.The volume:Focuses on how the social, economic, and education systems have evolved over time in India and identifies the scope of
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Contextualising Educational Studies in India

Research, Policy and Practices

Edited by Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, Suresh Babu G.S ...

This volume presents an interdisciplinary framework to map out contemporary educational studies in India. Based on conceptual tools, quantitative methods and ethnographic accounts drawn from extensive fieldwork, it addresses emerging discourses on educational policies, their operation in the everyday functioning of institutions and actual practices in teaching and learning. Individual chapters ... Read more

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This volume presents an interdisciplinary framework to map out contemporary educational studies in India. Based on conceptual tools, quantitative methods and ethnographic accounts drawn from extensive fieldwork, it addresses emerging discourses on educational policies, their operation in the everyday functioning of institutions and actual practices in teaching and learning. Individual chapters
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Unfolding Feminism in India

Women, Power and Politics

by Skylab Sahu ...

This book examines various gender-based power politics in Indian society. It studies gender intersectionality and feminism as a socio-political philosophy by understanding how societal power structures are deeply rooted and supported by our patriarchal societies.A comprehensive and interdisciplinary study on women’s issues in India, the volume:Adopts an intersectional feminist lens to critically ... Read more

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This book examines various gender-based power politics in Indian society. It studies gender intersectionality and feminism as a socio-political philosophy by understanding how societal power structures are deeply rooted and supported by our patriarchal societies.A comprehensive and interdisciplinary study on women’s issues in India, the volume:Adopts an intersectional feminist lens to critically
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The Routledge Handbook of Education in India

Debates, Practices, and Policies

Edited by Krishna Kumar ...

This comprehensive handbook introduces the reader to the education system in India in terms of its structural features, its relations with society and culture, and the debates that have shaped the present-day policy ethos.The book provides an overview of major debates that have shaped India’s education systems, as well as the significant issues within higher and school education, education studies ... Read more

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This comprehensive handbook introduces the reader to the education system in India in terms of its structural features, its relations with society and culture, and the debates that have shaped the present-day policy ethos.The book provides an overview of major debates that have shaped India’s education systems, as well as the significant issues within higher and school education, education studies
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