01343pab a2200193 454500008004000000100002400040245007700064260000900141300001300150362001100163520074900174650002900923650002100952773003400973908000601007909001101013999001901024952010601043180718b2014   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aKrishnan, Simantini  aPolitical economy of India's tertiary education : persistence and change  c2014  ap.63-70.  a15 Mar  aPrivatisation of tertiary education in liberalising India has taken place in the presence of a centralised regulatory regime. This phenomenon does not conform to explanations that understand privatisation as a direct consequence of withdrawal of the state from higher education and challenges the idea that liberalisation has minimal impact on state funding of higher education. This article seeks to understand the phenomenon through a comparative analysis of the tertiary education sector in pre- and post-liberalisation Karnataka which turned into a site of patronage and social management. Privatisation became the means by which the regulatory state placated powerful local groups which stood to lose from the reform process. - Reproduced.  aHigher education - India  aHigher education  aEconomic and Political Weekly  aN  a103506  c103502d103502  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 49, Issue no: 11pAR103966r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR