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This chapter describes and analyses differences in primary educational enrolment by gender for 6-14 year old Indian children across three social groups, namely, upper and lower caste Hindus, and Muslims. It also studies the evolution of community and gender differences across the 1990s. This was a decade of unprecedented economic growth in India and overall enrolment rates rose rapidly but there is as yet limited evidence of how social inequalities evolved. We find initial community enrolment ga

First Author: Basant, Rakesh; Shariff, Abusaleh
Attributed to:  Religion and Childhood Death in India funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives (2010)

ISBN: 9780198062059