Name: The Indian University. A Critical History
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Author: Debaditya Bhattacharya

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The Indian University. A Critical History

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Author

Debaditya Bhattacharya

Year

2025

Pages

296

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.1x14.3x2.3 cm

ISBN13

9789354426360

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Synopsis "The Indian University. A Critical History"

From the glorification of ancient ‘greatness’ to the riskiness of ‘platform futures’, this book offers a time travel through one of the most exalted and yet most abused institutions of our age – the university.

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.