The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India

ISBN-13: 9781032626970 / Twarda / 2023 / 550 str.

R. Govinda

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This companion gives a comprehensive overview of the history of primary education in India. 

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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