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2020
Niraja Gopal Jayal examines the politics of India’s higher education. She revisits the Rudolphs’ (1972) seminal study which explores the politicization of higher education, including the state’s active role during the early decades of the post-colonial era.
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Niraja Gopal Jayal examines the politics of India’s higher education. She revisits the Rudolphs’ (1972) seminal study which explores the politicization of higher education, including the state’s active role during the early decades of the post-colonial era.
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For Saraswati, at Eight Months
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1980Mornings, he told me, "Your hands they have a life of their own. I'm afraid what they might do." In time I learned to sleep like others, arms abandoned heavily on the bed. With her I know the night again. She calls me in the cool dark, her fingers rove over my palm, warm rain on the shallow basin, across my knuckles, the flat back of my hand, the mound
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DRAGON AND GODDESS: THE CULT OF GODDESS SARASWATI IN JAPAN
Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost, 2023This study is devoted to the cult of goddess Benzaiten (Saraswati) in Japan. As an Indian goddess Saraswati, who in the Vedic period was revered as the deity of the river of the same name, under the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism turned into the patroness of music and the embodiment of eloquence.
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In search of Saraswati: The ambivalence of the Indian academic
Higher Education, 1977College teachers in India are the focus of this article. Working conditions, attitudes, and their organizational milieu are surveyed. Data for this article are provided by a case study of the University of Bombay. The ambivalent role of the college teacher as an individual with an inadequate income, declining social status, and yet the pretensions of ...
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Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922)
2017Pandita Ramabai was a social reformer in nineteenth-century British India. She offered an unyielding critique of Hindu orthodoxy, caste and patriarchy and argued that education would raise the status of Hindu women. Ramabai was a social thinker and reformer who valued and advocated freedom of thought and action and worked tirelessly so that equality ...
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