Reading Rand and Rowling: Education Markets in Modern India

Sebastian Schwecke | pp. 92-98

Abstract :
The commentary highlights the need for expanding the study of education markets in modern India. Based on an ethnographic vignette on admission procedures in higher education, it engages with questions concerning the application of approaches derived from economic anthropology to education studies in India. Centrally, it argues that economic anthropology approaches to the study of markets—centred on the understanding of markets as communication arenas for valuation and its certification—provide new entry points for and shifting emphases in the study of education in the contemporary period.

Keywords: Education markets, certification structures, valuation, admissions, India