Higher Education and Social Change in India! Higher education in India stands as an immobile colossus-insensitive to the changing contexts of contemporary life, unresponsive to the challenges of today and tomorrow, and absorbed so completely in trying to preserve its structural form that it does not have the time to consider its own larger purposes. […]
Higher Education and Social Change in India | Sociology
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Universities in India | Sociology
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Universities in India are creatures of the Acts of Parliament/State Legislatures. There are no non-statutory universities; none can be recognised according to the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956. There are, however, some non-statutory institutions like the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay or the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune which are recognised as ‘deemed to […]
Essay on Equality | Sociology
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Essay on Equality! Our contemporary life is permeated by the contradiction between the principle of equality and the practice of inequality. This contradiction is particularly marked in India where a Constitution with a strong emphasis on equality confronts the most bewildering variety of inequalities in almost every sphere of life. But it is not confined […]