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Discuss mass education as an instrument of social change and modernization.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Education System and Social Change

Mass education — the deliberate extension of literacy and schooling to an entire population rather than to a trained minority — is one of modernity's defining projects. India began in 1951 with a literacy rate of 18.3 per cent and wrote universal elementary education into Article 45 of the Constitution. Whether that project has modernised…

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  • The modernisation argument
  • India's mass-education drive
  • Where mass education reproduces rather than changes
  • Conclusion

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