Education and Politics in India: Studies in Organization, Society, and Policy

488 Pages·1972·23.14 MB·English

by  Susanne Hoebar Rudolph and Lloyld I. Rudolph

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Education and Politics in India
Contributors
Paul R. Brass, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wash¬
ington, Seattle, Washington
Carolyn M. Elliott, Assistant Professor of Politics, University of California,
Santa Cruz, California
Joan Landy Erdman, Hanover, New Hampshire
Irene A. Gilbert, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Sim¬
mons College, Boston, Massachusetts
Harold Gould, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Cham-
paign-Urbana, Illinois
Janet Guthrie, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois
B. G. Halbar, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Karnatak University, My¬
sore
T. N. Madan, Senior Fellow (Sociology) and Head of the Asian Research
Centre at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, Delhi
Iqbal Narain, Professor of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Jai¬
pur, Rajasthan
Lloyd I. Rudolph, Professor of Political Science, and the Social Sciences,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Professor of Political Science and the Social Sci¬
ences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Education and Politics in India
Studies in Organization, Society, and Policy
Edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
and Lloyd I. Rudolph
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972
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© Copyright 1972 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 71-186675
SBN 674-23865-6
Printed in the United States of America
To J. P. Naik and David Riesman,
unconventional educators
Contents
Part I The Political System and the Educational System:
An Analysis of Their Interaction
1 / Studying Education and Politics 3
2 / Historical Legacies: The Genetic Imprint in Education 13
3 / The Public Interest and Politicization under Conditions of
Popular Higher Education 25
4 / Outputs: “Standards” in Democratized Higher Education 35
5 / Regional Patterns of Education 51
6 / National Educational Policy in a Federal Context: A
Proximate Goal 68
Part II Educational Institutions in Their Social and
Political Environment
Introduction to Part II 83
7 / Educational Structures and Political Processes in Faizabad
District, Uttar Pradesh 94
Harold Gould
8 / Caste and Community in the Private and Public Education of
Mysore State 121
T. N. Madan
B. G. Halbar
9 / Rural Local Politics and Primary School Management 148
Iqbal Narain
Part III Political Dimensions of University Government
Introduction to Part III 167
10 / Autonomy and Consensus under the Raj: Presidency
(Calcutta); Muir (Allahabad); M. A.-O. (Aligarh) 172
Irene A. Gilbert
11 / Parochialism and Cosmopolitanism in University Government:
The Environments of Baroda University 207
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Lloyd I. Rudolph
Assisted by Joan Landy Erdman Janet Guthrie