Education and Democracy in India Nita Kumar. Caste, class, gender & religion.

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Education and Democracy in India Nita Kumar

Caste, class, gender & religion

India: parliament

India: Democratic education

The Constitution of India

CASTE B.R. Ambedkar, Head of the Cons- tituent Assembly, maker of the Constitution of India

Common misconceptions about caste, corrected “You can never rise up in the social scale of caste.” No, you can, and this has been so throughout history. “Caste is the most damning hierarchy, from which there is no escape.” No. Economic class is more important, and to change your occupation and economic status is the easiest of several ways to ‘escape’ caste. Mobility is part of the story of caste.

Caste, continued “Caste” has been banned in the Indian Constitution. Wrong. “Caste-based discrimination” has been banned, except positively (cf the USA: racial discrimination is banned, not “race.”) “Caste is unique to India.” Yes, insofar as it is a ritual hierarchy, it is uniquely Indian. But if taken as simply a kind of hierarchy, it is similar to other hierarchies in the world, and as an education, one of the strongest.

Performers

CLASS Education and Literacy  Literacy rates increased from 18.3% in 1951 to 64.8 % in 2001  Faster growth in female literacy 14.9 % compared to 11.7% in males in last decade  Of the estimated population of 193 million in the age group of 6-14 years in , nearly 82.2 % were enrolled in schools  Number of Children in school : 136 Million  Number of out of school : 50 to 59 Million * Source: Economic Survey of : Literacy and Education

India: illiteracy

The citizens of India

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Indira, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi

GENDER: some facts India is a patriarchal society (like all others) Sons are more welcome than daughters, though daughters are certainly loved Mothers are worshipped Women have had separate spheres of work and have also participated in common spheres with men as active agents

Raja Rammohan Roy

RELIGION

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Rabindranath Tagore

Shantiniketan

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

A school, in the village