ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a particular kind of coaching institutes. The fact that a large number of people are interested in civil service exams indeed creates a demand for the private, for-profit coaching institutes. High quality intellectual ideas do not take what merely appears to be true as true and do not treat facts and information as raw data: they relate one thing to another, and say something general about a society and about nature. Individuals in society do certain things and think in certain ways, and thus exercise their human agency. Undoubtedly one person does things differently from another person. More or less sharing the world view of the wealthiest, civil servants and their political masters manage the common affairs of the propertied dass, including the fractions within this dass that have a dominance on the basis of caste and ethnicity, and increasingly, religion. The power of civil servants is the power of the state.
