1991, is known in the public policy community, as the year, when India took a decisive turn right, on governance and especially economic policy-making. That same year two books were published, both by scholars, with a deep and abiding faith in the transformative, power of education in the lives of children and nations; both were to be successful, yet the two books could not be more different.

This Tale of Two Books audio series will examine the interplay of ideas and interests that were catalysed by these two very different books and the impact they had on India's education planning and the lives of children and their families.

Krishna Kumar, The political Agenda of Education, A Study of Nationalist and Colonial Ideas, 1991  (https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/pol-agenda-kk.pdf)

Myron Weiner, The Child and the State in India, 1991 

(https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/stateandchild.doc)