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This report contains educational statistics in respect of Indians and covers the whole range of educational institutions from pre-primary to tertiary level, except for certain departmental and private colleges and educational training centres such as agricultural and forestry colleges, mining training centres, the Trade School for Adults, the South African Police College, the Merchant Navy Academy and other colleges giving specialised in-service training

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Boxes -- List of Figures -- List of Exercises -- List of Images -- List of Annexures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note to the Facilitator -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Glossary -- Consolidated Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors.

For thousands of years India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables," denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India's Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song. In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest. Jai Bhim Comrade shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that, from the days of the Buddha, has fought superstition and religious bigotry