Everything about Hereditary Education Policy totally explained
Hereditary Education Policy or
Kula Kalvi Thittam is an education policy introduced by
Rajaji as Chief Minister of
Madras State in 1952.As per this policy schools will work in the morning and students would be encouraged to learn the family vocation in the afternoon. A
Carpenter’s son would learn
Carpentry, a priest's son chanting
hymns and a barber’s son hair cutting and shaving after school in the afternoon. Now Hindu profession had evolved around caste system, particular castes did only particular professions and it was
Varna based where the
Brahmin was the highest in the order and learned the
Vedas, the
Kshatriya ruled the country,
Vaishya trading, the
Shudra did farming and artisan work, and the
Dalit or
untouchables did manual labor and was the lowest in the order and was denied education .. It was seen as a Casteist Education policy or Communal education policy aimed at maintaining maintaining caste hegemony.
Periyar Ramasami and other leaders saw this as clever ploy against the
Dalits,
Scheduled Castes and Tribes and
Backward Classes as there first generation was finally getting educated then. Their children had just begun to attend school after centuries of denial of educational opportunities under the rigid Hindu caste system .This was seen as a ploy to ensure the domination and monopoly of Brahmins.In
1920 when the
Justice Party came to power Brahmins occupied about 70% of the high level posts in government and after reservation was introduced by the
Justice Party reversed this trend and allowed non-brahmins to raise in the government in
Madras Presidency. Students would follow their parents professions and remain in there low status and lowly paid professions. Further it was felt that it was for the Parents and students themselves to decide what they wanted to be and not the government.
Rajaji's policy was also opposed within the congress party by leaders like
Kamaraj.
Rajaji had also closed down nearly 6,000 schools, citing financial constraints. There was severe opposition from within the Congress party and the opposition were trying to bring a no confidence against Rajaji over the issue.
Rajaji quit over this policy.
Kamaraj
removed the family vocation based Kula Kalvi Thittam (Hereditary Education Policy) introduced by Rajaji in 1954. Six thousand schools closed down by
Rajaji were revived and 12,000 schools added by
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