Synopsis Although Education is the most vital and potent instrument for development, individual and social progress, it has not received in India due attention for quite some time. That is why illiteracy and poverty are widespread. This naturally calls for a realistic and critical analysis of our system of education, policy0thrusts, schemes, and priority areas of education in the light of past experience, recent trends and realities of life. The prime objective should be to ascertain what possibly can be done with what we have, how the system can be vitally improved or transformed. The present book Education in India: Reforming the System attempts to examine the various aspects of reforming the educational system in India.