Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction : equality, quality and quantity--mapping the challenges before elementary education in India
Chapter 2. Child rights to elementary education : national and international provisions
Chapter 3. Dilution, distortion and diversion : a post-Jomtien reflection on the education policy
Chapter 4. Operationalising the constitutional guarantee of the right to education : issues of resource crunch and state commitment
Chapter 5. Marginalisation of the equity agenda
Chapter 6. Educate girls, prepare them for life?
Chapter 7. Terms of inclusion : dalits and the right to education
Chapter 8. Inclusive education in the context of common schools : a question of equity, social justice and school reforms
Chapter 9. Educational deprivation of the marginalised : a village study of the Mushar community in Bihar