Education for social equality.

Education has an emancipating power. Education is wedded to reason and reason is becoming the pivot of social change. From the ancient time till the modern time higher castes in the ritual hierarchy commanded an undisputed control over education. The very control over education was not only the manifestation of power asymmetry in the social institutions but also its progenitor. Brahmins were compared with brain, the container of knowledge. Shudras had no access to education which kept them in a bottom of the ritual hierarchy.

British rule in India came as an emancipator for lower castes. The secular orientation of British and administrative requirement gave a boost to education and in particular higher education. There also came intellectuals likes William Jones who revived the interest in education in ancient Hindu texts. The texts were reinterpreted in modern context. Social reformers explained the distortion that was prevailed in the society about the ritual hierarchy and the varna system in light of the newly gained knowledge. Initial beneficiary of this era of modern education were mainly higher and middle caste people but nevertheless the social reformers of the time percolated it to the lower castes as well.

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