Education and Its Discontents: Investigating Barriers to Schooling among De-notified and Nomadic Communities

Abstract

This article is based on a study carried out between 2013–2015 in nine states in Central, Western and Southern India on socio-economic status and educational attainment among the de-notified, nomadic and semi-nomadic communities. The primary objective of the study covering 76 communities and 13,020 households was to track the barriers to educational attainment and the specific linkages between socio-economic status and education among these communities.

Keywords

De-notified communities/tribes (DNT)National Commission for Denotified Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Communities (NCDNT)discrimination Criminal Tribes Act

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