The Indian University

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The Indian University

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Type: Paperback

ISBN: 9789354426360

Date: 10th August, 2025

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

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Is there such a thing as an 'Indian university'? Is there an 'idea' of an Indian university? Were universities in India living and breathing products of the soil, or were they conceptual imports from a colonial heritage? What is the relationship between universities in India and the 'publics' that have inhabited or are alienated by them? More pointedly, how 'public' is the Indian public university? This volume explores the historical makings of the Indian university as it stands today, by sifting through archives, colonial/postcolonial policies, textual-literary records and political-economic developments. What results is a 'critical history' - navigating the force of myth and promise, revolutions and reforms, communities and markets.

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