**1. Introduction**

The Indian higher education system is one of the largest systems in the world. India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector as enrolment and the numbers of HEIs have increased almost four-time since 2001. This increase was because of primarily driven by the privately owned institution. Indian higher education system is a mass system where higher education is seen as a right for those who have certain formal qualifications. It is said that higher education is dependent on the level of income and the occupational structure of the economy.

Service economies in developed countries tend to have a great demand for higher education. India contributes to the global workforce is only marginal. Knowledge has always been a distinguishing characteristic of human beings in view of their unique capacity to formulate and continuously transmit knowledge from one generation and location to another. Research has always been an important part of a

university's function in India. In addition to their role in imparting knowledge, the establishment of universities as centers for the production of knowledge.

Education is a means of progressivism that is well discussed by Rousseau's Emile. Rousseau's educational ideas no longer seem radical to a modern student and teacher. Wollstonecraft wanted education to produce social justice in the future as well as being a benefit to young people in the present. The true objective of social justice is to establish a perfect society. According to Wollstonecraft, social justice is always in the making, and necessarily responsive to changing conditions that come from the result of a struggle for social justice ([1], p. 343).

Rousseau argues that education could lead to a more socially just society. Further, he seeks to change contemporary educational practices so that it would be possible to create a more socially just society. The teacher is never to demand obedience either through force or reason. Teacher makes sure the boy's education is one of 'well-regulated freedom. Social justice must integrate into an understanding of education– of living a good life together with each other and treating others equally ([1], p. 344).

In an era when classical education was prominent among British elites and defined the civilized person, they found Indian civilization to be the equal of western civilizations. Education suggests that the power of intellectual curiosity and the love of learning were equally strong motives as the need for a social leader. Accomplishments in science and technology and the capacity to use them in benign and productive ways seemed to prove that humans could master and harness nature and direct and control social change ([2], p. 80).
