Introduction -- Education and the rise of a middle-class dream -- Aspirational regimes -- Keeping up with the times : rebranding education in globalising India -- Experiencing middle-class schooling -- Education at the fringes : schooling in the Kerala backwaters -- Living the f…
Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important, new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives children and their families, …
Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important, new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives children and their families, …
This book explores the structural features of Indian society, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, sanskritization and untouchability. Based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material, the book Interrogates the prevailing thinking in Indian sociolog…
This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.
This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.
This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus
This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neith…
