Educational Development in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Status of Education in India. 2. Organization of the Educational System. 3. Educational Administration. 4. Pattern of School Education. 5. Universalisation of Elementary Education. 6. Developments in Higher Education. 7. Progress in Technical Education. 8. Non-formal Education Programmes. 9. Adult Education programmes. 10. Educational financing. 11. Educational Innovations. Bibliography. Index.

“\'Education’ in India is a term which is loaded with numerous, conflicting definitions. On the hand, seven as 60years of Independence have materialized, nearly 50% of the population is still illiterate; on the other, the spread of education through numerous public and private institutes of learning has given hopes to millions, generating job opportunities and increasing is an crucial tool for the nation’s development; it, however, can unfortunately be viewed in the Indian context only in a polarized manner, directing our gaze towards the discrepancies between those who have reaped its benefits and those who have been bereft of it. The status of education in India, therefore, is an issue of sensitive import, crucial as it is to gauge the strides of progress that the country has been making.

This book conceptualized and designed as a socio-economic treatise, brings within its purview the matter of development of education in India. It delineates the historical facts that have ensured the progress and spread of education within the nation throughout the ages, but more specifically, since Independence and how education has traversed across divisions and factors of age, sex, class, caste, region religion. It takes into considerations the implications of education within Indian, society, what constitutes the make-up of an educated person’s mind, and how vital and integral it is to India’s image as a democratic nation continually charting the course of development.”