Social inequalities, fundamental inequities, and recurring of the digital divide: Insights from India

N Tewathia, A Kamath, PV Ilavarasan - Technology in Society, 2020 - Elsevier
The paper uses a large scale national quantitate dataset to provide a fresh perspective on
linkages between the digital divide and social inequalities in India. Commencing from two …

How inclusive is higher education in India?

JBG Tilak - Social Change, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In the broad context of inclusive growth policies in India, an examination of the growth and
inequalities in the country's higher education is attempted in this article with the help of rich …

Shadow education in India: participation and socioeconomic determinants

I Kumar, IR Chowdhury - Journal of South Asian …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although shadow education in India has been in practice for a long time, the scale has
grown dramatically in recent years, with the size of the industry ranging between 40and 70 …

The Impact of Parents' Educational and Occupational Footprints on Children: Evidence From India

N Ahmed, DK Nauriyal - Journal of South Asian …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the effects of parents' educational backgrounds and career
preferences on their children's educational and employment opportunities in India's various …

Girls' higher education in India on the road to inclusiveness: on track but heading where?

R Sahni, V Kalyan Shankar - Higher Education, 2012 - Springer
The scope of this paper spans from macro-level national and inter-state comparisons to
more micro-level intra-state scrutiny of systemic fault-lines shaping the contours of girls' …

Access to higher education in India: An exploration of its antecedents

R Basant, G Sen - Economic and political weekly, 2014 - JSTOR
This paper explores the role of socio-religious affiliations in determining participation in
higher education in India, and whether the importance of these affiliations changes over …

Current challenges for doctors in India: Deprofessionalisation, reprofessionalisation or fragmentation?

R Jeffery - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Western‐trained doctors in India struggled to establish themselves as a medical
'profession'in the 1920s and 1930s and these struggles continued into the post‐colonial …

Higher education, reservation and scheduled castes: Exploring institutional habitus of professional engineering colleges in Kerala

CM Malish, PV Ilavarasan - Higher Education, 2016 - Springer
This paper seeks to unravel the institutional context of the educational experience of
scheduled caste engineering students in Kerala, a federal state in India. Though much has …

How much does having a bank account help the poor?

G Sen, S De - The Journal of Development Studies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Having a bank account is widely regarded as the first step toward financial inclusion of the
poor. Funds deposited in a bank account are also observed to lead to higher savings …

Moving up the energy ladder: does socio-religious status matter?

P Poddar, D Pal, S Chatterjee - Population and Environment, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigates the role played by socio-religious categories in determining primary
cooking fuel choices among Indian households. We study this role in the broader context of …