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Intentional and Unintentional of Going for Higher Education
among Scheduled Caste Students with Reference to Doda District
of Jammu and Kashmir State
Bushan Kumar
Research Scholar, School of Education, Central University of Kashmir,
Email; bushankumar@cukashmir.ac.in/ bushankumar004@gmail.com
Ph: +919622035367
Abstract
The Indian higher education system is hypothetical to be the foundation of equal opportunities
to all students irrespective of their life situation. This study examined to intention and
unintentional of scheduled caste (SCs) students towards their journey of higher education after
successfully completion of their intermediate course in District Doda of Jammu and Kashmir
state, the objectives of the study: {1} To explore the intention of the scheduled caste students to
go for higher education, {2} To explore the intention of the scheduled caste students to go for
higher education across the gender and {3}To explore influence of parental income and
qualification. The source of data collection is primary through questionnaire, analysis and
interpretation or presentation of data through SPSS in percentage and tabulation.
Introduction
“In some societies it is not uncommon for individuals to move up or down the social ladder.
Where this is the case the society is said to have ‘open’ classes (Mondal, 2016). Elsewhere there
is little shifting individuals remains through a life -time in the class into which “they have chance
to be born. Such classes are “closed and if extremely differentiated constitute a caste system,
observed by Ogburn and Nimk off.” It is said that castes are a special form of social classes
which in tendency at least are present in every society. ( Mondal Vikram , 2010).Maclver says,
“When status is wholly predetermined, so that men are born to their lot without any hope of
changing it, then class takes the extreme form of caste. According to Sangeetha Rao, if castes are
detached from religion, class may run parallel to castes (Singh,P.2017).Hindu society was
composed of classes such as (1) Brahmin or the priestly class, (2) Kshatriya or the military class
and (3) Vaishya or the merchant class and (4) Sudra or the artisan. This was considered as a class
system .according to B.R. Ambedkar. Among the Hindus the priestly class maintains social
distance from others through a closed policy and becomes a caste by itself (Mondal, 2016).
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The other classes undergo differentiation, some into large and some into very minute groups. The
natural thing about these sub-divisions is that they have lost the open-door character of the class
system and have become self-enclosed units called castes (ibid).He further argues that since the
Brahmins remain detached from others through endogamy it was wholeheartedly imitated by all
the non-Brahmin sub-divisions or classes who became endogamous castes (Mondal, 2016).
Review related studies
Malish & Ilavarasan (2016) Ethnographic studied on title “Higher education, reservation and
scheduled castes: exploring institutional habits of professional engineering colleges in Kerala”
To study institutional context of the educational experience of scheduled caste engineering
students in Kerala. Source of data collection Primary source : sample total of 14 SC students
(Out of 14, 8 are from the SGI and 6are from the CGI, the study found that the Admission to
both the SGI and the CGI was based on an entrance examination conducted at state and national
level.
Nagamurthi, S. (2016) in his study on title “Education development of SCs in Karnataka: A
statistical analysis” the objectives of study to study the educational development among
scheduled caste. The illustrate that though there are fellowships and reservations, there is slower
growth of education among scheduled castes. it is surprising to note that only 15.66% of the
Scheduled caste population is got primary education, only 14.20% of the SC population got
Secondary education, about 12.49% of the SCs have got education up to pre-degree level and
remarkably, only 8.58% of the scheduled caste population is getting higher education including
Graduation, Post Graduation and Research degrees. Even though majority of the SC population
is getting basic education, their participation in higher education is very low. Furthermore, study
reveals that it is essential to look into the problems of scheduled castes to get education. It is
observed that, there is negligence and poverty among the scheduled castes especially in rural
areas and even many of these castes are deprived from facilities and services due to suppression,
discrimination, alienation and social inequality especially at rural areas.
Sahab, D. (2015) conducted a study on title on “Determinants of higher education for scheduled
caste in utter pardesh: A socio- economic Analysis.” The objective of study were to study the
social and economic status among scheduled caste, the study found that the social economic
relationship influence at higher education.
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Vidhyadhar, S. & Ubale (2015) in his study on title “A study and Analysis of the impact of
Internal marking in Education of the caste SC and ST in Buldhana District.” The objectives of
the study is to examine the ratio of the students of the caste SC and ST in Buldhana District
relating to internal marks which are allotted to students very easily. Findings of study reveals
that this is due to internal marking which are getting without any efforts and all the student are
getting more or less same marks without any quality education.
Kaur, A. (2015). Studies illsturate that the moblization among scheduled castes (SCs) main
objectives of his study was to study the nature of social mobility among scheduled caste. (Kaur,
2015) found that the Result shows that majority of respondents are of Ramdasia community,
have considered education and occupation is one of the most important factor for their social
mobility.
Meshram and V.J. Nandapurkar (2012) “Educational Development of Scheduled Caste and
Scheduled Tribe”, Education is the key to development. In the present era of globalization,
liberalization and privatization (GLP) dimensions with regard to availability and
accessibility to educational opportunities particularly for Dalits and poorer sections of our
society are changing very rapidly.
Sample Purposive sampling has been used in the context of the present study. Investigator has
been taken 100 students has been taken who failed to go for higher education.
Tools for data collection Self constructed questionnaire were used in order to examined the
intention and unintentional among scheduled caste student and their journey of higher education
Table 1.1: Intention of going for higher education among scheduled caste students across
the location.
Intention of going
higher education
Yes No Total
Rural 59(52.7) 53(43.3) 112 (100)
Urban 70(79.5) 18(20.5) 88 (100)
Total 129 71 200
Table 1.1 highlights that the distribution of scheduled caste students intended to go for higher
education across location. Data highlights that 52.7 percent of the students from rural area
