The Contested Terrain: Perspectives on Education in IndiaSabyasachi Bhattacharya This collection of essays aims at providing a comparative and historical perspective on education in modern India. The essays have been organised in thematic clusters. Such as, the role of the nationalist paradigm and its variants in the educational discourse of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the inequalities in the distribution of educational opportunities and the diversities within the nationalist fold, etc. |
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The Contested Terrain of Education | 3 |
Education of the Labouring Poor in 19th | 23 |
National Education in Bengal 19051912 | 54 |
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