Second Historical Survey of Women's Education in India 1988-1994 :

Present Status, Perspective Plan, Statistical Indicators with a Global View/S.P. Agrawal and J.C. Aggarwal. 1996, 418 p., $40.

Contents: I. Recent developments in women's education in India since 1988: 1. Overview of women's education in India. 2. Ramamurti Committee for review of national policy of education, 1986. 3. Education for all by 2000 (1990). 4. Central advisory board of education working group on education for women and other disadvantaged groups (1991). 5. Programme of action of national policy on education (1992). 6. Janardhan Committee to review implementation of NPE (1992). 7. Workshop on the need of women's education in the teacher education curriculum (1992). II. Statistical indicators: India (as a whole) states scheduled castes and scheduled tribes districtwise women's literacy (1991): 8. India (as a whole). 9. States. 10. Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. 11. Districtwise women's literacy (1991). III. Global overview select documents women's education: comparative indicators: 12. Women : challenges to the year 2000 (1991). 13. SAARC decade of the girl child (1991). 14. Literacy, education and women (1992). 15. Women in development (1992). 16. Women in literate world (1992). 17. UNICEF and girl's education (1994). 18. International responses to women's education and allied issues. 19. United Nations and women's education including allied issues: retrospect and prospect. 20. Women's education : comparative indicators. Appendices: 1. Women's education in ancient India. 2. Girls: NCERT study (1986). 3. Women's education and fertility behaviour: a case study of rural Maharashtra, India. 4. Education and sex-gap. 5. Sexwise distribution of nobel laureates, 1901-1989. 6. Women's development task, strategies and initiatives of Government of India. 7. Seminar on declining sex ratio: implications for education and media (1991). 8. Sources of financial support for research in India. 9. Education of women and girls in India: a case study. 10. Women's literacy works. 11. Council of Europe: education of women in Austria. 12: I. 1995 World Conference on Women. II. Women's Studies Project. 13. Working women in India. 14. Focal points/bodies dealing with question relating to women's development issues. Select bibliography on women's education and allied topics. Index.

"This is the second volume on the subject of women's education. The first volume entitled 'Women's Education in India' covered the period upto 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 districtwise 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 others, 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." (jacket)