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                                                                 that perpetrated the slave mentality. Hence the
             Deccan Education Society
        DES  established in 1884, registered on 13 August  reverse the then existing scenario and give
             The Deccan Education Society (DES) was  common  mission  for  establishing  DES  was  to
           1885 by the towering personalities of the Indian  rise to a progressive mindset. In the view of the
           freedom  struggle,  Lokmanya  Bal  Gangadhar  founders, ‘Education was the means of rousing
           Tilak, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Vishnu Shastri  the intellect, the drooping will, and the slumbering
           Chiplunkar,  Mahadeo  Ballal  Namjoshi,  and  conscience of their fallen countrymen’. At a time
           Vamanrao Apte & was ably supported by  when the concept of democratic practice was just
           Rajashri Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur. In the  being conceived in India, DES decided to adopt
           preindependence era these visionaries realised  a democratic structure for its own governance.
           that the education which prevailed in India under  Thus, it became a model for teacher-managed
           the rule of the Britishers was to create products  institutes in Maharashtra and symbolized the
           only to serve the Britishers. The system did not  ‘People’s Own Initiative’ in evolving education
           teach the people to question, criticise, create,  as a means of national regeneration.
           and relect their thoughts. It was simply a system






























































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