The current number of Social Scientist is devoted to a discussion of the Draft New Education Policy (DNEP). What is striking about these articles is that even though they have been written independently of one another, they cohere into a…
The draft report to evolve a National Educational Policy (NEP), 2019 (hereafter the Draft), submitted by the committee headed by Dr K. Kasthurirangan, claims to evolve a ‘completely new and far-sighted policy’ to change the educational ‘landscape’ and prepare the…
This note on the Draft National Education Policy 2019 (DNEP) seeks to evaluate the recommendations, the vision that steers the effort, and the implications the proposed changes will have on the future of education in India by scrutinising it against…
The Draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 envisions an ‘India-centred education system that contributes directly to transforming our nation sustainably into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society.’ I would like to focus on knowledge economy, avowedly the central agenda of…
One cannot but be struck by the tone of smug self-satisfaction that pervades this report, that India was the origin of most great ideas including the Pythagoras theorem and the Fibonacci series, that Indian universities like Nalanda and Taxila were…
Biswamoy Pati, Tribals and Dalits in Orissa: Towards a Social History of Exclusion, c. 1800–1950, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, 221 pages, Rs 945. This posthumously published book consists of six chapters, of which three have been published earlier…