The book Education in India: Policy and Practice is a collection of papers/articles on education written in the journal Social Change over a period of five decades. It was published in 2021, when Social Change celebrated its Golden Jubilee.
In his introduction to the series, Manoranjan Mohanty writes about the major social and economic changes and mass movements in India in the post-Independence period. Specific theme based issues of the journal have captured these developments. The focus of the book under review is on education policy and practice—trends and shifts—in the last seventy years. Neo-liberal economic reforms were launched in India in 1991 leading to shrinking of social sector expenditure, including health and education. In the introduction to the volume, Tilak highlights the corresponding shifts in education policies.