Asian Journal of Development Matters
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

The challenges of educational empowerment of marginalized groups in India

  • Author:
  • Ehsan Shayegan1, Jalal Jafarpour2
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 106 to 113

1Student of M.A, Sociology, University of Mysore, Mysore

2PhD Scholar, Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore

Online published on 30 August, 2014.

Abstract

“Inequality” has been an essential part of human history all over the world, but in India -caste, region, religion and gender have been the major mechanism of inequality. Moreover, inequality has been an important character in the Education sector which has often observed distribution of unequal educational opportunities on the basis of mentioned variables, which in turn challenged the inclusive development process. There are strong evidences, describing the discrimination on the basis of caste, religion; region and gender in education system. Therefore, this article on the basis of secondary data tends to describe the major challenges justified by caste religion and gender which function as significant challenges ofeducational empowerment of marginalized groups.

Keywords

caste, religion, region, gender, equality