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Conservative Force or Contradictory Resource? Education and Affirmative Action in Jharkhand, India
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Higham, Rob; Shah, Alpa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article explores the combination of education and affirmative action in challenging historic inequalities faced by adivasis, or indigenous peoples, living in a remote region of Eastern India. We show how the combined effects of education and affirmative action can act as a "contradictory resource". On the one hand, policies of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Social Class