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M. J. Vinod is a Professor in the Department of International Studies, Politics and History, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru and former Dean (Faculty of Arts) and syndicate member in Bangalore University, India. He received his MA, MPhil and PhD degrees from Bangalore University. He was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship, where he taught as a scholar in residence at Morgan State University, Baltimore, from August 2015 to May 2016. He is recipient of Salzburg Fellowship; Ford Foundation Fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park; Swiss Foreign Ministry Fellow at the Graduate School of International Studies, Geneva; visiting fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D. C. He has been a visiting professor at the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University; Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and regularly visits the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. His areas of specialization include higher education, Indian foreign policy and political theory. Dr S. Y. Surendra Kumar is an Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India. He holds MPhil and PhD degrees in South Asian studies from School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi. He is a recipient of Mahbub ul Haq Research Award and Short Duration fellowship. His recent book is titled Ballots, Bullets and Bhikkhus: The Role of Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lankan Politics and Ethnic Conflict. He has contributed more than 20 chapters in various edited books and published more than 30 research articles in leading national and international journals. His areas of interests are public policy studies and South Asian security.
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| Summary: | "The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has argued that marginality is the state of being considered unwanted, undesirable and insignificant which results in inequity, unfairness, deprivation and enforced lack of access to power and resources. Marginalization is basically a global problem which varies in terms of degree. Marginalization can be both an abstract and a complex concept. It has been used in a variety of ways and in different contexts and disciplines. The present volume attempts to conceptualize the problem of access and marginality in higher education. The experiences of marginalization also matters as it has its sociological and psychological dimensions. It has both its qualitative and quantitative dimensions as lack of access to higher education can be considered as an ultimate form of marginalization. This book argues that, although there is a lot of literature emphasizing and highlighting the role of accessibility in the higher education, there are very few studies dealing with the fundamental question, what difference higher education can make in the lives of marginalized communities. In other words, whether higher education is a value addition in the quality of lives of Dalits, Minorities, Women and PwD"--
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