Photos: Scenes of education in India

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School in New Delhi on May 24, 2011.
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Seema , an Indian street urchin studies at a school run by Save the Children NGO in New Delhi on May 24, 2011.
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Hyderabad.
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Indian schoolchildren eat their mid-day meal at a government primary school in the outskirts of Hyderabad on June 13, 2011.
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Indian schoolchildren write English alphabets on slates at a government primary school in the outskirts of Hyderabad on June 13, 2011.
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Indian children study inside a bus converted to a school called the "School on Wheels" at a slum in Hyderabad on Sept. 13, 2011.
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A "tent school" run by a non-governmental organization in Bangalore on Sept. 7, 2011.
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Bangalore, Sept. 7, 2011.
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Bangalore, Sept. 7, 2011.
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Bangalore, Sept. 7, 2011.
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A "tent school" run by a non-governmental organization in Bangalore on Sept. 7, 2011.
- [Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images]