Globalization, Culture, and Education in South Asia: Critical Excursions; D.Kapoor , B.Barua , & Al.K.Datoo PART I: GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE, AND EDUCATION: URBAN PRIORITIES AND PERSPECTIVES AND FORMAL EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS Indian Higher Education and the Dynamics of Global Collaborations; F.Rizvi & R.Gorur The Global Education Policy Field and National Education Policy-making in Pakistan; S.Ali Neoliberal Globalization and Higher Education in Bangladesh; T.Tasnima & E.Haque The World Bank, Community Schooling, and School-based-management: A Political Economy of Educational Decentralization in Nepal; T.Pherali Global/Colonial Designs, School Knowledge Production, and Students' Cultural Identities: A Critical Ethnographic Perspective from Pakistan; A.K.Datoo Neoliberal Globalization and Pre-primary Teacher Education Policy and Practice in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives; A.Gupta Rights and Resistance: The Limits and Promise of Human Rights Education in India; M.Bajaj & B.Kuruvila PART II: GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE, AND EDUCATION: RURAL PRIORITIES AND PERSPECTIVES AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS The Barua Community, Globalization, and Colonial Education: The Quest for Socio-cultural Identity in Bangladesh; B.Barua Performing and Politicizing Education in West Bengal, India; D.D.Costa Colonization to Decolonization: Resistances to Assaults on Traditional Agriculture; A.T.Sayeed Globalizing Capitalism: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Specter of Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Activism and Anti-colonial Pedagogies in Rural India; D.Kapoor