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This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and their psycho-social consequences. It foregrounds the debates around caste, exclusion, and reservations in Indian academia, discussing the roots of prejudices in the university spaces.
List of contents
1. Caste and the Academia 2. Dalits and Higher Education in India: A Fact Sheet 3. Unequal Spaces: Mapping Caste Discrimination in Indian Universities 4. A Social History of Indian Academia 5. ‘My Birth is my Fatal Accident’: Social Semantics of Dalit Students’ Suicides 6. Social Cosmology of Merit and Pervasive Injustices. Appendix: RTI Table.
About the author
N. Sukumar teaches Political Science at Delhi University, India. His area of interest includes Indian Political Thought, Ambedkar and Dalit Bahujan Studies, Human Rights and Social Exclusion. Currently, he is engaged on Dalit Citizenship and Anti-Caste Utopias. He is also member/advisor for many professional bodies in many Central Universities and other institutions. He has published widely in research journals, blogs etc. and has been involved in both national and international research studies on poverty and public institutions, caste-based atrocities, and discrimination. Apart from the classroom, he is also actively involved in grassroots peoples’ struggles.
Summary
This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and their psycho-social consequences. It foregrounds the debates around caste, exclusion, and reservations in Indian academia, discussing the roots of prejudices in the university spaces.
