02020nam a22002177a 4500 20260123110728.0 240917b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780670098637 AL English 23 370 VASS Vishal Vasanthakumar 252343 Smart and the Dumb : the Politics of Education in India Haryana Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd 2024 179 p. HB 21x14 cm. 3641 ₹479.00 ₹ ₹599.00 20% 05-09-2024 ‘When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb’—Thomas Nagel Education achieves many things—it pulls people out of poverty, enables socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by education? Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being rewritten. Today, there clearly is more to education than going to school, getting credentials and getting a job. This book is an attempt to capture what this ‘more’ is, by exploring education’s connections to caste, class and gender and understanding how they affect the promise of education. In documenting the fractured realities of the many children who want guns for Christmas and the psychological trauma of conflict in Manipur, how a ban on toddy-tapping affects educational choices in Tamil Nadu or why a grandmother chose to get her fifteen-year-old granddaughter married to a seventeen-year-old truck driver in rural Rajasthan and many such stories, this book attempts to paint a portrait of the political and cultural processes that affect education. Non-fiction 179164 Education 179165 ddc BK 231808 231808 0 0 ddc 0 0 PSY AL AL 2024-09-13 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 479.00 1 370 VASS 077328 2025-01-13 00:00:00 2025-01-04 599.00 2024-09-17 BK