Abstract: This paper critically attempts to present education as an emancipator not as employment. It presents critical frameworks of Indian philosophers Buddha in general and Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and Dr.Ambedkar in particular. This article mainly examines the Indian higher education system and academic killings and the practice of social exclusion. It also presents the nature of academic knowledge production at Indian higher education system. It critically argues how far the production of knowledge its past, present and future is owed to “human agency’? In terms of its order, content and control? It challenges the dominant paradigm of knowledge production by suggesting a critical pedagogical practice and social inclusive apparatus. It questions the caste hegemony and academic encounters in higher educational institutions
Keywords: students; suicides; educational institutions.
2020.1.2-6 students suicides in higher educational institutions