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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A Homogenised Education System Blends Well with Hindutva -Prabhat Patnaik

A Homogenised Education System Blends Well with Hindutva -Prabhat Patnaik

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published Published on Oct 31, 2021   modified Modified on Oct 31, 2021

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Globalised capital would like a system that produces identical potential recruits and social support base for itself, which fits the Hindutva agenda, as reflected in NEP’s silence on caste.

Education in post-Independence India was supposed to not just provide knowledge and skills to students, but also to facilitate the process of “nation-building” (to use a clumsy word). Since the concept of an “Indian nation”, although it existed in a rudimentary form earlier (going back even to the writings of Sufi poet and singer Amir Khusrau), came into vogue only during India’s anti-colonial struggle, the “nation-building” role of education requires, above all, an awareness of this struggle, which in turn demands familiarity with the condition of India under colonial rule, and the facts of exploitation of its people.

It is not just students of humanities and social sciences who need to have this familiarity, but all students, including those doing the natural sciences and engineering, if they are to become, what Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci had called “organic intellectuals”, of the people of free India.

The production of such “organic” intellectuals necessarily implies, therefore, that the curriculum, and course contents of education, not just of higher education but even of elementary education, should be different in India compared with the advanced countries, where, for instance, the deprivations inflicted by colonialism on the colonised people hardly ever get mentioned.

In fact, J D Bernal, the renowned British scientist, was of the view that even in the natural sciences, countries like India should have a syllabus and a course content that should be sui generis and not imitative of the metropolis. For instance, given the nature of the disease profile in India, the medical education of Indian doctors must have an emphasis that is different from, say, in Britain. (This is in addition to the fact that Indian doctors must also know about colonialism and the anti-colonial struggle).

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