"Half Title" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright page" -- "Contents" -- "List of figures" -- "List of tables" -- "Notes on contributors" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction" -- "PART I Logic of access" -- "1 Compulsion to educate" -- "2 Education in urban areas" -- "3 Institutional diversity and quality" -- "4 Examination for elimination: celebrating fear and penalising failure" -- "PART II Curriculum and teaching" -- "5 Mind the (language-medium) gap" -- "6 Science and mathematics teaching in schools and colleges" -- "7 The teaching of social sciences in schools and colleges in India" -- "8 The uses and teaching of history" -- "9 An experiment in rural education: the revival of Anand Niketan" -- "PART III Training for professions" -- "10 The making of India as an engineering society" -- "11 Discourse of teacher education in India" -- "12 Management education in India: how far have we come?" -- "PART IV Universities and society" -- "13 Indian higher education: twenty-first-century challenges" -- "14 Gendered access and participation: unequal subject choices in Indian higher education" -- "15 Caste quotas and formal inclusion in Indian higher education" -- "16 Tribes and higher education in India" -- "PART V Underbelly" -- "17 Active partners: rethinking the educated unemployed in India" -- "18 Access, success, and excess: debating shadow education in India" -- "19 Understanding Vyapam