The Impact of Education in South Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction: The Impact of Education in South Asia—From Sri Lanka to Nepal

   • Helen E. Ullrich

   Pages 1-10

3. Getting in, Dropping out, and Staying on: Determinants of Girls’ School Attendance in Nepal

   • Sarah LeVine

   Pages 11-36

4. “Going Out to School”: The Impact of Girls’ Education on Family and Gender Systems in Bhubaneswar, India

   • Susan C. Seymour

   Pages 37-52

5. Family Matters: Understanding Educational Choices and Gendered Science in India

   • Carol C. Mukhopadhyay

   Pages 53-82

6. Rural Women’s Education: Process and Promise

   • Ann Grodzins Gold, Chinu Gujar, Ghumar Gujar, Madhu Gujar

   Pages 83-110

7. Refashioning Futures: Dalit Women’s Education and Empowerment in Maharashtra

   • Shailaja Paik

   Pages 111-135

8. “Government Brahmin” Caste, the Educated Unemployed, and the Reproduction of Inequities

   • A. R. Vasavi

   Pages 137-160

9. Schooling, Identity, and Belonging in a Tamil Lutheran Congregation

   • Geoffrey L. Burkhart

   Pages 161-187

10. Life Options Through Education: A Karnataka Village Study

    • Helen E. Ullrich

    Pages 189-218

11. Thinking Through Livelihood: How a Peasantry of Princely Rājpuṭāna Became Educated and Activist Rural Citizens of Rajasthan, India

    • R. Thomas Rosin

    Pages 219-243

12. The Curriculum, and the Hidden Curriculum, in Indian Education, 1985 to the Present

    • Nita Kumar

    Pages 245-269

13. A Little Learning: Women, Men, and Schools in Rural Sri Lanka

    • Deborah Winslow

    Pages 271-286

14. Discussion and Conclusion—Reflections on the Impact of Education in South Asia: From Sri Lanka to Nepal

    • Helen E. Ullrich

    Pages 287-297

15. Back Matter

    Pages 299-308

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This edited volume focuses on the impact of education among different social groups in different geographical areas of South Asia. The chapters illustrate the effects of formal education on castes ranging from Dalits to Brahmins, Buddhists, and Christians, even as they consider a range of topics such as the relevance of practical knowledge prior to formal teaching, the personal educational experiences of young women, missionary education, curriculum, and the challenges and benefits of Information Technology. The geographical areas range from Sri Lanka and Nepal to various Indian states, including Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Maharastra, Odisha, and Rajasthan.

• professional development
• education
• South Asia
• educational opportunities
• caste
• class affiliation
• ethnographic
• ethnography
• women’s education
• patriarchy
• gender norms
• intergenerational
• ritual

“The Impact of Education in South Asia is a stunning collection of essays written by experienced anthropologists of South Asia. The volume identifies themes and variations in educational opportunities and outcomes in Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal across much of the past half-century.  Especially welcome is the manner in which contributors apply anthropological concepts of patrifocality, hypergamy, social stratification, and intersectionality to analyze reasons for schools' impact and effects on gendered and generational relations in South Asia.  The result of contributors' fine-grained research and fieldwork methods is to show that schooling operates well beyond, and sometimes regardless of, what is outlined in the formal curriculum. This collection is sure to set a new direction for the anthropological study of education for the next generation.” (Amy Stambach, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

• Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, USA

  Helen E. Ullrich

Helen E. Ullrich, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice, as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University Medical School, USA. Her published works include three books (most recently, The Women of Totagadde: Broken Silence) and numerous articles in linguistics, psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry, and anthropology.  

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