The roots of any education system lie deep within the soil of its history. In India, these roots are entangled with the legacies of colonial rule, which have left behind not only administrative and linguistic frameworks but also epistemological frameworks - that is, ideas about what counts as knowledge, how it is taught, and to whom. This book, Echoes in the Classroom: Colonial Shadows in India's Modern Education, is an outcome of a long-standing inquiry into how British colonialism continues to shape, inform, and sometimes distort the contours of education in postcolonial India.