The book discusses issues leading to degradation of higher education in India which has seen a much faster pace compared to the decades of 1980s and 90s. In a country with still 21.2 percent of its population living below poverty line, itself proofs the pithy state of affairs of how poverty reduction is counted. Education remains the only path for vertical uplifting, especially higher education which makes individuals eligible to be placed in the top ranks in administrative, technological, academic and medical sectors. Higher education is not just about employment and monetary benefits but brings with it the feeling of dignity, status, prestige and above all the knowledge of one’s rights and liberties which enable citizens to become alert members of the society in a democratic state. The spirit behind bringing this volume is to unravel these multilayered issues of inclusion, highlighting areas of exclusion in higher education planning and policy implementation in India. How is discrimination played and performed in manifolds, narratives of experiences on day-to-day basis, how discrimination is made to be invisible by people in power, problems teachers face and why they are not heard?weiterlesen