ABSTRACT
The Indian school system consists of a wide ranging variety of schools. This chapter examines an inside view of the Indian school system, with its pedagogical ideas, hierarchical structures, social interactions and material conditions. It is a spotlight in a more ambitious part of the school system, as both schools, alternative and mainstream, are private, charge school fee, have a middle class clientage and use English as language. The main object of the ethnographic research was the mainstream school, which is a Composite College that includes a class range from lower Primary over Higher Primary to High School, as well as a nursery with an extra Montessori section. The mainstream school in Bangalore is located in a well of living quarter in the belt around the inner city of Bangalore, on a street away from the main roads.
