Manabi Majumdar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manabi Majumdar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manabi |
| FAMILY NAME | Majumdar |
| SIGNATURE | MAJUMDAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indian Citizenship Revisited
Sukumar Muralidharan, The Nation and Its Citizens: Tales of Bondage and Belonging, Rupa Publications, 2022, 263 pp., ₹395, ISBN: 9789355206381 (Paperback). Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC, Oxford University Press, 2022, 280 pp., ₹1495, ISBN: 9780192859082 (Hardcover). Harsh Mander and Navsharan Singh (Eds.), This Land Is Mine, I am Not of This Land: CAA-NRC and the Manufacture of Statelessness, Speaking Ti…
English immersion and Bangla floatation? Rendering a collective choice private
This article aims to revisit the importance of nurturing reciprocal relationships of equality and enrichment between Bangla and English in the school life of children residing in the Indian state of West Bengal. We couple the descriptor "immersion" with English and "floatation" with Bangla to serve as metaphors for language ideology. After a brief review of the language in education policy in the country and in Bengal in both colonial and post-In…
Homogenized Educational Imagination and Polarized Educational Opportunities: Schooling in Contemporary Kolkata
Cultivating Capabilities through Activism: Examples from India
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social goal and a deeper political statement about the need…
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
Capability Failure and Group Disparities: Some Evidence from India for the 1980s
This paper advances a particular measure of deprivation - called the Capability Failure Ratio (CFR) - on the dimensions of longevity, knowledge and income, and suggests how an (inequality-) 'adjusted' version of the CFR may be derived. These measurement concerns are explored in the context of relevant State-wise data for the Indian Union. The paper thus makes an attempt to enrich the analysis of human predicament by sensitising 'measures of centr…
English immersion and Bangla floatation? Rendering a collective choice private
This article aims to revisit the importance of nurturing reciprocal relationships of equality and enrichment between Bangla and English in the school life of children residing in the Indian state of West Bengal. We couple the descriptor "immersion" with English and "floatation" with Bangla to serve as metaphors for language ideology. After a brief review of the language in education policy in the country and in Bengal in both colonial and post-In…
Cultivating Capabilities through Activism: Examples from India
Capability Failure and Group Disparities: Some Evidence from India for the 1980s
This paper advances a particular measure of deprivation - called the Capability Failure Ratio (CFR) - on the dimensions of longevity, knowledge and income, and suggests how an (inequality-) 'adjusted' version of the CFR may be derived. These measurement concerns are explored in the context of relevant State-wise data for the Indian Union. The paper thus makes an attempt to enrich the analysis of human predicament by sensitising 'measures of centr…
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social goal and a deeper political statement about the need…
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
Cultivating Capabilities through Activism: Examples from India
Homogenized Educational Imagination and Polarized Educational Opportunities: Schooling in Contemporary Kolkata
English immersion and Bangla floatation? Rendering a collective choice private
This article aims to revisit the importance of nurturing reciprocal relationships of equality and enrichment between Bangla and English in the school life of children residing in the Indian state of West Bengal. We couple the descriptor "immersion" with English and "floatation" with Bangla to serve as metaphors for language ideology. After a brief review of the language in education policy in the country and in Bengal in both colonial and post-In…
Indian Citizenship Revisited
Sukumar Muralidharan, The Nation and Its Citizens: Tales of Bondage and Belonging, Rupa Publications, 2022, 263 pp., ₹395, ISBN: 9789355206381 (Paperback). Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC, Oxford University Press, 2022, 280 pp., ₹1495, ISBN: 9780192859082 (Hardcover). Harsh Mander and Navsharan Singh (Eds.), This Land Is Mine, I am Not of This Land: CAA-NRC and the Manufacture of Statelessness, Speaking Ti…
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Education (2 works)