Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Critical Sites of Inclusion in India’s Higher Education

  • Book
  • © 2022

Overview

Editors:
  1. Papia Sengupta

    1. Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Acquaints the reader to the often invisibilized practices and policies
  • Emphasizes on the complexities of education policies
  • Identifies the challenges to the idea of inclusion

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 16.99 USD 109.00
Discount applied Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Papia Sengupta
    Pages 1-19

  3. Interrogating Neoliberal Market Rationality and the Exclusivity of Higher Education

    • V. Bijukumar
    Pages 21-39

  4. Negotiating Inclusion: Minority Institutions and Constitutional-Legal Dimensions in India

    • Malavika Menon
    Pages 41-65

  5. From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Case of Public Madrasah Education System in West Bengal

    • Abdul Matin
    Pages 67-79

  6. Language Conundrum: English Language and Exclusivity in India’s Higher Education

    • Ramanujam Meganathan
    Pages 81-96

  7. Inclusive Education from School to Higher Education in India: Provisions, Possibilities and Progress

    • Gagandeep Bajaj
    Pages 97-118

  8. Institutional Norms as Hindrance to Participation of Women as Members of Academic Community

    • Shivani Nag
    Pages 119-131

  9. Higher Education and the Question of Inclusivity for LGBTQIA+ Community

    • Shailja Tandon
    Pages 133-147

  10. Assessing Inclusion in India’s Higher Education: NEP 2020 in Perspective

    • Papia Sengupta
    Pages 149-188

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-191
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of ‘inclusion’, through theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by identifying the challenges to the idea of ‘inclusion’ illuminated through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday experiences of individuals.

Higher education is imperative to empowerment in socially stratified societies marred with deep inequalities like India and many other multicultural countries. Disputes over inclusion remains a critical feature in Indian higher education sector, as it is viewed as facilitating access to economic opportunities and providing vertical mobility for individuals belonging to marginalized communities. Higher education empowers, and expands individual horizons of thought and ideas of freedom, dignity, equality, enabling individuals to participate actively in the political-sociological discourses in democratic polity. Therefore, policy makers, political theorists and educationists have been examining the question of inclusion and education as public-good. Contemporary India has witnessed an unprecedented attack on academic freedom, free exchange of ideas and expressions, challenging the very idea of inclusion and inclusiveness.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India

    Papia Sengupta

About the editor

Dr. Papia Sengupta is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She was awarded the Distinguished Teacher award by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2009 for her contribution to students’ mentorship. Dr Sengupta was fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2016) and Brown University, USA (2015). Her research interests include politics of language, diversity studies, minority rights and decolonization of knowledge, gender and multiculturalism. She has been awarded fellowships from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Fellowship, Swiss International Development Agency fellowship, Switzerland and the International Institute of Social History fellowship. Her monograph titled Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics, was published in 2018. In 2020 the International Association for Applied Linguistics, Netherlands honored her with the Solidarity Award. Dr. Sengupta’s research articles have been published in reputed national and international journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Action, Geoforum and The International Journal on Diversity

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Sites of Inclusion in India’s Higher Education

  • Editors: Papia Sengupta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8256-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8255-1Published: 02 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8256-8Published: 01 March 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 191

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Education Policy, Political Science

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation