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Caste and the Politics of the Early 'Public' in Schooling: Dalit Struggle for an Equitable Education
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Direct linkNambissan, Geetha B. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2020
In this article, I draw attention to the early 1850s in the Bombay Presidency when the colonial government first assumed responsibility for mass education. I show that in the subsequent decades, publicly funded schooling was narrow and extremely exclusive as a result of the strong opposition of dominant castes to the education of the Dalits…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Equal Education, Educational Policy
