Book review :Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India

Mukhopadhyay, Rahul (2009) Book review :Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India. [Publications (Pre-joining)]

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Many works on education have found Amartya Sen’s emphasis on education and its links to a more just and equitable society compelling. Taking the freedom of individuals as the foundation of his argument, Sen has elaborated on how the capabilities of persons should be the focus of development. Sen’s argument views freedom as both a means and an end of development; that is, both substantive basic freedoms like health and literacy and other instrumental freedoms that contribute directly and indirectly to the quality of life led need to be developed for their intrinsic value. Sen’s thesis serves as both the foundation of the argument of this book as well as its point of departure. The book under review is based on fieldwork in rural Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India, and also one of the most complex in terms of the socio-economic diversities it encompasses, and difficult to fathom with respect to the political transitions it has undergone, especially in recent years.

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