ISBN-13: 9781032626970 / Twarda / 2023 / 550 str.
This companion gives a comprehensive overview of the history of primary education in India.
List of tables ix
List of Acronyms xi
Preface xiv
Prologue xix
1 The Beginning: After the Beautiful Tree 1
2 The Baroda Experiment 13
3 Gokhale’s Bill 39
4 The Mysore Regulation: Right Step Gone Wrong 59
5 Colonial Legislation on Compulsory Education 73
6 Colonial Primary Education: Anatomy of Failure 140
7 Mass Education and the Macaulay Story 163
8 Gandhi’s Challenge and the Unfulfilled Promise 172
9 The Last Decade: As the Raj Recedes and India Rises 193
10 Towards Becoming a Republic: Envisioning Education for Independent India 206
11 New Beginning: After Independence 220
12 The First Decade: Foundations for Education in New India 235
13 Planning for Universal Elementary Education: Promise and Performance 262
14 Purpose of Primary Education: From Literacy Focus to Learning Crisis 287
15 National Education and the Nationalist Agenda 304
16 Work and Education: Perennial Disconnect 318
17 Rise and Fall of Non-Formal Education 326
18 Legislating School Participation: The Compulsion Conundrum 342
19 Education of the Girl Child: Rhetoric and Reality 360
20 The Primary Teacher: A Story of Fractured Identity 385
21 Education as a Fundamental Right: Reluctant Embrace 409
22 Act in the Making: Seven-Year Labour 423
23 Rights Framework in Action: The Promise and the Predicament 441
24 Then and Now: Mass Education Not a Mirage 455
Index 469
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