Orissa: Education As Culture Mapping: Schooling Among Chuktia Bhunjia Girls

Orissa: Education As Culture Mapping: Schooling Among Chuktia Bhunjia Girls Bhubaneswar Sabar, 2010 This article deals with issues relating to education of Chuktia Bhunjia tribe of Orissa, highlighting the major factors determining girls’ education in this society. While looking at the low literacy of the girl child, factors like material culture, life cycle rituals and customary cultural norms are found largely responsible for high drop out from school. However, poverty, school timings...

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