A Business School for the Indian Poor

In an age when business schools have become synonymous with stratospheric tuition fees and blue-chip faculties, the Mann Deshi Udyogini, or Udyogini Business School, which opened in January 2007 in a drought-prone village in Maharashtra State, is India’s, and perhaps the world’s, first and only B-school for unlettered rural women.

A kind of parallel univ…