Papers by Dr. Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
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The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
The chairman of the drafting committee of the modern Indian Constitution, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, e... more The chairman of the drafting committee of the modern Indian Constitution, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, emphasized that education cultivates democracy in society, strengthens the roots of democracy, and brings about social transformation. The social transformation includes a way of life that will promote liberty, equality, and fraternity, which are Dr Ambedkar’s “key elements of an ideal society”. This paper discusses the implications for higher education campuses for achieving an ideal society in light of the emerging evidence on peer group formation around identities and issues of discrimination associated with caste in the context of increasing student diversity. The paper also emphasizes the important role of a civic-learning approach to higher education; meaning an active engagement with values of liberty, equality, and fraternity. There is a shared belief that higher education has a great potential to be a social laboratory for civic learning and to inculcate democratic values and fos...
Reflections on 21st Century Human Habitats in India, 2021
Launched in October 1975, India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program is its lar... more Launched in October 1975, India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program is its largest national program for promoting the health and development of mothers and their children. In this paper we examine an aspect of the ICDS program that has been neglected, namely who are its beneficiaries? Are they persons from deprived groups who, but for the program, might not have received such services? Or are they persons from more privileged groups who have the resources to acquire them from other sources? In both cases the ICDS program adds value but, in the latter situation, it does so by displacing existing services. This particular evaluation of the ICDS program is particularly important in the light of the Government of India’s view, as articulated in its Eleventh Five Year Plan, that growth is not perceived as “sufficiently inclusive for many groups, especially Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Minorities”. The paper presents econometric estimates regarding the relati...
Reclaiming Development Studies, 2021
Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric, 2015
As the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-b... more As the lowest in the caste hierarchy, Dalits in Indian society have historically suffered caste-based social exclusion from economic, civil, cultural, and political rights. Women from this community suffer from not only discrimination based on their gender but also caste identity and consequent economic deprivation. Dalit women constituted about 16.60 percent of India’s female population in 2011. Dalit women’s problems encompass not only gender and economic deprivation but also discrimination associated with religion, caste, and untouchability, which in turn results in the denial of their social, economic, cultural, and political rights. They become vulnerable to sexual violence and exploitation due to their gender and caste. Dalit women also become victims of abhorrent social and religious practices such as devadasi/jogini (temple prostitution), resulting in sexual exploitation in the name of religion. The additional discrimination faced by Dalit women on account of their gender an...
Gender and Education, 2019
Conferences are key sites for the development of academic careers; however multiple studies show ... more Conferences are key sites for the development of academic careers; however multiple studies show that conferences are exclusionary on the basis of gender and other axes of social disadvantage. Most conferences research has focused on Global North contexts; this study focuses on India and as such also incorporates caste as an axis of privilege and disadvantage in relation to access to conferences. A social exclusion perspective is taken as the analytical lens. The paper is based on data from a largescale national study of social inequalities in higher education, which included quantitative analysis of administrative records and qualitative analysis of interviews with academics. Key findings include that participation in conferences is proportionally lower for women and scheduled caste academics than for men and upper caste academics, and that access to conferences is embroiled in relational processes of social exclusion which operate in the academy, despite formal policies being in place.
India Higher Education Report 2016: Equity, 2018
International Journal of Educational Development, 2017
Singular acts of academic corruption, such as cheating on an exam, occur in all institutions in a... more Singular acts of academic corruption, such as cheating on an exam, occur in all institutions in all countries.Until recently, however, academic corruption that is systemic has been under-studied and under-theorized. This article focuses exclusively on monetary corruption.The authors focus on their forms and the individuals involved. The article investigates academic corruption in India.By way of a modified case study the authors analyze how corruptions functions at one private college in India.The purpose is neither to propose legislative efforts to stop such activities nor to suggest that the forms of corruption discussed are unique to India.Instead, the article utilizes a theory based on the idea of organizational culture to come to terms with what systemic corruption is and how those within the academy might best confront it.
International Higher Education, 2017
With an enrollment of 34 million students and a gross enrollmentratio passing 24 percent in 2016,... more With an enrollment of 34 million students and a gross enrollmentratio passing 24 percent in 2016, India is in a stage of massification. This article addresses challenges surrounding the issue of growing student diversity on higher education campuses.
International Higher Education, 2016
International Higher Education, 2016
Dalit women are not 'just like' the rest of the women. They suffer from social exclusion,... more Dalit women are not 'just like' the rest of the women. They suffer from social exclusion, which deprives them of choices and opportunities to escape from poverty, and a voice with which to claim their rights. There is a close interface between patriarchy and social exclusion which reinforce each other. This report develops an understanding of the problem of the ‘Dalit women’ in India, through a review of current literature related to gender discourse in general, and of Dalit women in particular. Findings indicate the need for a primary survey to develop perspectives on non-discriminatory access to rights by Dalit women
Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment
Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment
Introduction - Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal Exclusion, Deprivation and Human Develo... more Introduction - Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal Exclusion, Deprivation and Human Development: Conceptual Framework to Study Excluded Groups - Sukhadeo Thorat, Arjan de Haan and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal Government Policy against Discrimination and for Empowerment - Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal Exclusion and Discrimination: The Contemporary Scenario - Sukhadeo Thorat and Prashant Negi Human Development and Human Poverty by Social Groups - Sukhadeo Thorat and S Venkatesan Levels and Patterns of Consumption Expenditure of Social Groups - Ashwini Deshpande Levels and Disparities in Poverty - Arjan de Haan and Amaresh Dubey Literacy and Educational Levels - Sachidanand Sinha Housing and Household Amenities - Sachidanand Sinha Health and Nutritional Status - Vijay Kumar Baraik and P M Kulkarni Occupational Pattern - M Thangaraj Access to Agricultural Land and Capital Assets - R S Deshpande and Motilal Mahamallik Employment and Unemployment Situation: Rural and Urban - Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapati Reservation and Share in Public Employment - Sukhadeo Thorat and Chittaranjan Senapati The Road Ahead: Dalits in the New Millennium - Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal Bibliography Index
Economic and political weekly
Age-old restrictions on access to capital by certain social groups continue to reflect themselves... more Age-old restrictions on access to capital by certain social groups continue to reflect themselves in the scheduled caste and scheduled tribes owning far fewer private enterprises than warranted by their share in the population in both rurual and urban India. Recent nationwide data also reveal that when they do run business establishments these are mainly household enterprises organised around family labour. Poverty rates among the enterprises of the socially disadvantaged groups are also much higher than among the other castes.
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Papers by Dr. Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal