Indian Constitution New Delhi: Deep & Deep (p.13) This
book is a mine of information for the reader who is
unfamiliar with the rights of minority groups in India.
See also, Chitnis, S. (1986) 'Positive Discrimination: The
educational advancement of the scheduled castes in India'
In: D. Rothermund and J.Simon Education and the Integration
of Ethnic Minorities London: Frances Pinter (p.109). See
also, Borkar, V.V. and Kurulkar, R.P. (1987) Employment
Experience of Weaker Caste Graduates: Marathwada Region,
India. IIEP Occasional paper No. 73 Paris: UNESCO (p.55)
See also, Malik, S. (1979) Social Integration of Scheduled
Castes New Delhi: Abhinav Publications (p.166) Malik
describes the unenviable position of people in India who
have "lowly social origins" because these people do not
receive adequate social recognition, although they have
"improved their educational and occupational statuses."
(p.166) See also, Thirtha, N.V. (1964) National
Integration Jullunder: University Publishers
See also the following books for descriptions of the
minority and communal problem in India. Jha, H. (1985)
Colonial Context of Higher Education in India Patna
University from 1917 to 1951, A Sociological Appraisal New
Delhi: Usha; Naik, J.P. (1965) Elementary Education in
India: The Unfinished Business London: Asia Publishing
House; The Mudaliar Report (1953) Report of the Secondary
Commission October 1952 - June 1953 Govt, of India Ministry
of Education Madras: The Jupiter Press; Yaqin, A. (1982)
Constitutional Protection of Minority Educational
Institutions in India New Delhi: Deep and Deep
Publications. See also, Glazer, N. (1983) Ethnic Dilemmas:
1964 - 1982 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press. (p.234) Glazer's book offers a description of
ethnicity as a complex interaction between
bilingual-bicultural assimilation, and his work is a good
introduction to cultural pluralism.
(24) Glazer, N. and Moynihan, D.P. (1979) Why Ethnicity IN:
D.R.Colburn and G.E. Pozzetta America and the New Ethnicitv
Port Washington, N.Y.: National University Publications
Kennikat Press, (p.30)
(25) Bowles, B. and Gintis, H. (1976) Schooling in
Capitalist America:______Educational Reform and the
Contradictions of Economic Life London and Henley:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, (p.14) This book is concerned with
schools being responsible for fostering a legitimate
inequality by which they reward and promote students and
"allocate them to distinct positions in the occupational
hierarchy", (p.ll)
(26) See Chapter 4 for a description of the Indian
Educational Formula introduced by the Kothari Commission.
The formula is 10+2+3, that is, 10 years of primary and
secondary schooling, 2 years of further education and 3
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