Given the diversification of higher education system and the consequent diversity in the student population, this research project aims to explore the diversity and discrimination in the higher education campuses in India. As a result of higher education expansion and enhanced aspiration levels of families cutting across the class and caste boundaries, campuses have now become a diverse social space. As more non-traditional social groups enter into college campuses, homogenous characteristics of college-going population are gradually disappearing. Campuses are now occupied by a wide variety of students belonging to various social, economic, linguistic, gender, regional and physical ability backgrounds. Although it appears to be a positive development, existing research has raised concerns that social divisions and its associated practices, prejudices and values are getting reproduced in higher education campuses.
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