Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and
have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more …

India will soon be the world's most populated country and its political development will
shape the world of the 21st century. Yet Hindu nationalism–at the helm of contemporary …

In the Introduction, we provide an outline of the new discursive regime in Indian school
education, focused on concepts of efficiency, accountability and outcomes, that has been …

Abstract The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015–2030 pursues
the goal of preventing new risk, reducing existing risk, and managing residual risk through …

Indian parents are faced with more choices of schools, but with less information on schools
and schooling. The study across four states in rural India suggests that perceptions of …

This study investigates the impact of international remittances on private school enrolment in
Kerala. Using data from the 2010 Kerala Migration Survey and employing an instrumental …

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under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 …

So far research on school choice sets (decision about choosing a school from an available
set of schools) has primarily regarded parents as key actors. Moving beyond, this article …

This article adopts tools from political science and political anthropology to re-evaluate the
prevailing discourses of accountability and marketisation that continue to shape education …

In this chapter, I draw on interviews with parents living in three lower income communities in
Delhi to explore parental conceptions of school quality and to examine the role of both …