Abstract
Caste determines the field of education in India. Students who belong to the lower structure of caste experience discrimination based on caste in their day to day academic as well as non-academic life. This paper attempts to explore the ways of caste driven social inclusion/exclusion which challenge their lives. Constitutional privileges provide rights to the students who belong to these communities. At the same time, the ideology of caste is hegemonic in the Indian society and they face different forms of social exclusions. Thus, they are caught in between social inclusion and social exclusion. This highlights the forms of exclusion which structure their lives irrespective of the policies based on social inclusion. This paper traces the history of dalit struggles for education in the midst of the reactionary ideology of caste
Highlights
This paper is based on the experiences of dalit students in the field of Indian higher education
What are the modalities of resistance against caste in higher education? How does dalit community engage with their right to education? We argue that the diverse forms of their experience reflect the persistence of horrendous caste based inclusion
The development of dalit women through higher education aggravate when we look at their caste-class location from other non-dalit women
Summary
Introduction This paper is based on the experiences of dalit students in the field of Indian higher education. It will explore the ways in which caste based-social locations determine the existence and mobility of dalit students. The history of the struggles by organic dalit intellectuals help us to understand their theoretical and pragmatic engagements with the questions related to education and social mobility.
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