Annotated Source- Education

Chanana, K. 1993. Accessing Higher-Education - the Dilemma of Schooling Women,

Minorities, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Contemporary India. Springer 26 no. 1 (July): 69-92

This article explores the problems and inequalities that result from schooling in culture riddled with preferential gender treatment and systematic discrimination based on the caste system. It reviews the government’s school curriculum that attempts to promote equality. Implementing these ideas is difficult and has had little success in combatting the attitudes about caste and women. The idea that proper education would lead to social change has not proven effective.

This article is extremely useful for my research question. The failure of the education system for low caste children (especially women) is integral. The attitudes caused by the culture of caste perpetuate economic hardship and systematic discrimination that make significant participation in a political system nearly impossible. This lack of meaningful participation further creates a cycle of poverty that has lasted generations.