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Book Review D.V. Kumar (Ed.), The Idea of a University: Possibilities and Contestations. Routledge: Indian Subcontinent Edition, 2022, pp. 200, Price: ₹995, ISBN: 9781 0323 327 65 (Hardback).Reviewed by Amar Nath Mishra | pp. 120-123

Book Review Janaki Nair (Ed.), Un/Common Schooling: Educational Experiments in Twentieth-Century India. Orient BlackSwan, 2022, pp. 254, Price: ₹1,145, ISBN: 9789354422775.Reviewed by Gunjan Sharma | pp. 115-119

Book Review Farah Farooqi, Education in a “Ghetto”: The Paradoxes of a Muslim-Majority School. Routledge: South Asia Edition, 2024, pp. 205, Price: ₹1,295, ISBN: 9781 0327 685 64 (Hardback).Reviewed by Saheed Meo | pp. 110-114

Commentary R for Refugee Devika Sharma | pp. 109When simple foods such as ragi evoke disgust,The need to own a house of one’s own takes primacy,The desire to go visit that village once before one’s old bones don’t allow,When conversations veer towards life left behind in that country in the smallest pretext,One knows then,R…

Commentary The Battlefields in the Extracurricular: From Performance to Litigation Ratheesh Kumar | pp. 100-108 Abstract:This discussion traces the interfaces of education and popular culture by examining the sites of the ‘extracurricular’ in school life. From a range of extracurricular terrains in educational institutions, the focus here is on the dynamics of cultural and…

Commentary Sustaining Inequality through a Stratified Government Schooling System Sadhna Saxena | pp. 91-99 Abstract:The Constitution of independent India is rooted in a liberal ideology and committed to the values of liberty, justice, and equality. For achieving equality and justice, education was seen as one of the main strategies. However, over the years, central…

Research Article Formal Schooling and Community Rights: Engaging with Indigenous Knowledge in the South Indian Context K. P. Manojan | pp. 66-90Abstract:Indigenous communities across the globe own rich resources of traditional knowledge which have evolved from their everyday cultural practices and livelihood mechanisms developed in constant engagement with nature. These knowledge mechanisms are synonymous…

Research Article Revisiting Schrödinger’s Science and Humanism and the place of Humanities in a Science Curriculum: Lessons for our Times​Dhruv Raina | pp. 50-65 ​Abstract:This paper embarks on a contextual reading of a work by the renowned physicist and Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger entitled Science and Humanism. It is argued that while specialisation does…

Research Article A School Teacher’s Quest to Build Shahr-e-AarzooFarah Farooqi | pp. 26-49 Abstract:This is the story of an ‘ordinary’ sarkari school teacher, Safdar Naqvi and his efforts to dream and build Shahr-e-Aarzoo. This activist-teacher was not just passionate about teaching and administration, but both supported the government as well as protested against to…

Research Article A Comparative Study of Monitorial Schools in the West And Indigenous Vernacular Schools in India in the 19th Century. Parimala V. Rao | pp. 4-25 Abstract:The Monitorial system introduced in Europe and the Americas in the 19th century to educate the lower classes was considered to have been based on Indigenous schools…