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A Postcolonial Critique of Indian’s Management Education Scene

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This chapter explores the history of Management education in India and its current status as a dominated field of knowledge. Building from Ford Foundation’s support for IIMs to the 2008 IIM review committee report, it traces the developments in the notions of Management education in India. It also focuses attention on the status of the Management teacher in contemporary times, as an individual who straddles between the subordinated world of Management education and a native teacher. Following the logic of decolonial thinking and the geopolitics of knowledge, the chapter makes a suggestion for decolonizing Indian Management education. It also provides an illustration of how thinking from “other” categories opens up a new world of understanding and insight.

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    ‘2 more IIMs, 1 IIT announced in Budget,’ Business Standard, Mumbai Feb 28, 2015 <http://www.business-standard.com/budget/article/2-more-iims-1-iit-announced-in-budget-115022800288_1.html>. Accessed June 6, 2015.

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    www.aicte-india.org. Accessed June 6, 2015.

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    “CAT 2014 registrations up marginally; 7000 register on Oct 10” http://www.bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-2014-registrations-marginally-7000-register-on-oct-10. Accessed June 6, 2015.

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    ‘MBA in India: 90 % graduates unemployable. <http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/slide-show-1-career-only-10-percent-mbas-employable/20130131.htm>. Accessed June 6, 2015.

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    Global Poverty Rates and Economic Growth <http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.in/2014/01/global-poverty-rates-and-economic-growth.html>. Accessed June 7, 2015.

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    A Brief History of Transnational Corporations. <https://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/47068-a-brief-history-of-transnational-corporations.html>.

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    World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016: Global Economic Outlook <http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wesp/index.shtml>.

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    Management literature has usually distinguished between physical and natural environment. Only natural environment has been associated with plunder in this literature including the sustainability strand. In much of this literature, man and environment are seen as different from each other. In referring to nature here to include human existence and not distinct from the natural environment, I wish to foreground that Indian sensibility which sees human existence as a part of nature where the relationship between the part and the whole is neither singularly harmonious, adversarial or dominating, but a blend of different possibilities.

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    Academy of Management Annual conference. <http://aom.org/Events/2013-Annual-Meeting-of-the-Academy-of-Management.aspx>.

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    The primary argument that had been made in favour of setting up of IIMs as autonomous organizations was that it would give the institutions flexibility and enable them to avoid the highly bureaucratic and hierarchized university system and thereby enable them to be more effective.

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    Of the different types of enterprises in India in the preindependence times, most of the Managerial positions were occupied by Europeans. The supervisory or jobber positions were manned by Indians. But in the textile industry of Bombay, both Managerial and supervisory positions were manned by Indians.

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Jammulamadaka, N. (2017). A Postcolonial Critique of Indian’s Management Education Scene. In: Thakur, M., Babu, R. (eds) Management Education in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1696-7_2

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