TY - GEN N2 - This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of inclusion, through theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by identifying the challenges to the idea of inclusion illuminated through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday experiences of individuals. Higher education is imperative to empowerment in socially stratified societies marred with deep inequalities like India and many other multicultural countries. Disputes over inclusion remains a critical feature in Indian higher education sector, as it is viewed as facilitating access to economic opportunities and providing vertical mobility for individuals belonging to marginalized communities. Higher education empowers, and expands individual horizons of thought and ideas of freedom, dignity, equality, enabling individuals to participate actively in the political-sociological discourses in democratic polity. Therefore, policy makers, political theorists and educationists have been examining the question of inclusion and education as public-good. Contemporary India has witnessed an unprecedented attack on academic freedom, free exchange of ideas and expressions, challenging the very idea of inclusion and inclusiveness. DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-8256-8 DO - doi AB - This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of inclusion, through theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by identifying the challenges to the idea of inclusion illuminated through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday experiences of individuals. Higher education is imperative to empowerment in socially stratified societies marred with deep inequalities like India and many other multicultural countries. Disputes over inclusion remains a critical feature in Indian higher education sector, as it is viewed as facilitating access to economic opportunities and providing vertical mobility for individuals belonging to marginalized communities. Higher education empowers, and expands individual horizons of thought and ideas of freedom, dignity, equality, enabling individuals to participate actively in the political-sociological discourses in democratic polity. Therefore, policy makers, political theorists and educationists have been examining the question of inclusion and education as public-good. Contemporary India has witnessed an unprecedented attack on academic freedom, free exchange of ideas and expressions, challenging the very idea of inclusion and inclusiveness. T1 - Critical sites of inclusion in India's higher education / AU - Sengupta, Papia, CN - LA1153 N1 - Includes index. ID - 1444825 KW - Education, Higher KW - Inclusive education KW - Minorities KW - Higher education and state KW - Enseignement supérieur KW - Intégration scolaire KW - Minorités KW - Enseignement supérieur SN - 9789811682568 SN - 9811682569 TI - Critical sites of inclusion in India's higher education / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-16-8256-8 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-16-8256-8 ER -