Gajendran Ayyathurai

Gajendran Ayyathurai, (PhD Columbia) is an anthropologist and a historian based in Göttingen, Germany. Before coming to Göttingen University, Gajendran taught at Columbia University, City University of New York, and William Paterson University, USA. He has published on the culture, memory, and history of the casteless Tamils/Indians in Tamil, English, and German. And he has initiated a new subfield, Critical Caste Studies, with scholars from India, Europe, and North America.

Debrahminizing Education and Critical Caste Studies

By Gajendran Ayyathurai / Issue 29, Education, Magazine / 10 minutes of reading

Education is vital for the betterment of humanity. Societies with oral or/and written traditions have relied on individual self-education and collective inter-generational education to preserve themselves and enrich the lives of their members over time and space. However, we need to be aware that many societies have perpetuated privileged and un-privileged forms of education, more