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Commenting on the rapid rise in share prices over the Second World War years, Kosambi said: Not only has Nehru neglected to take note of this accumulation, but he has also been unable to grasp just what this quantitative change has done qualitatively to the character of the Indian middle class, a class which may now be said to be firmly in the saddle. A few drops from the banquet (generally from the excess profits) have been scattered as a libation in the direction of education, scientific research, and charity; a considerable slackening of the ancient rigidity of manners, and unfortunately of morals also, is duly noticeable. Yet this is nothing compared to the principal characteristic of this class, the ravening greed which is now so obvious in the black market, in enormous bribes spent in making still more enormous profits, in speculation in shares and an increasingly callous disregard for the misery and even the lives of their fellow Indians (Kosambi 1986: 14).
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
SEE’s implicit market-based theory of social change privileges economic and private solutions rooted in innovation, while ignoring the power relationships that actually stymie social change. It promotes individual and collective exit from the public sphere, instead of advancing the use of voice—via collective political action—to generate the power to mobilize public institutions to solve power problems, in particular problems of inequality.
Social Entrepreneurship as Field Encroachment
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