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Half Title–Title Page–Copyright page — Contents — List of figures — List of tables — Notes on contributors — Preface — Introduction — PART I Logic of access — 1 Compulsion to educate — 2 Education in urban areas — 3 Institutional diversity and quality — 4 Examination for elimination: celebrating fear and penalising failure — PART II Curriculum and teaching — 5 Mind the (language-medium) gap — 6 Science and mathematics teaching in schools and colleges — 7 The teaching of social sciences in schools and colleges in India — 8 The uses and teaching of history — 9 An experiment in rural education: the revival of Anand Niketan — PART III Training for professions — 10 The making of India as an engineering society — 11 Discourse of teacher education in India — 12 Management education in India: how far have we come? — PART IV Universities and society — 13 Indian higher education: twenty-first-century challenges — 14 Gendered access and participation: unequal subject choices in Indian higher education — 15 Caste quotas and formal inclusion in Indian higher education — 16 Tribes and higher education in India — PART V Underbelly — 17 Active partners: rethinking the educated unemployed in India — 18 Access, success, and excess: debating shadow education in India — 19 Understanding Vyapam