Summary:
This is the second volume on the subject of women's education. The first volume entitled 'Women's Education in India' covered the period up to 1988. Being a unique work of its kind, the book received rare reviews and proved so popular that a reprint edition had to be published within a short period of its release.Present volume comprises three Parts. Part I is devoted to recent developments in women's education in India since 1988. Besides giving an overview of women's education in India, it includes significant documents concerning women's education.Part II includes women's educational indicators covering India as a whole, States, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and District wise women's literacy.Part III includes women's education in the world, challenges to the year 2,000, decade of the Girl child and International response. It also provides a comparative study of educational indicators covering a wide gamut of women's education in respect of 145 countries.Appendices include, among other, sources for financial support for Research in India, list of Focal points/Bodies dealing with question relating to women's development issues.It is hoped that both the volumes will be of great interest and value to all those interested/engaged in girls and women's education at various levels