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15 septembre 2013
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9789351183174
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English
Ramachandra Guha
Pluralism in the Indian University
CONTENTS ~ Dedication
Preface: The Case for Polemical Moderation
PART I: DEBATING DEMOCRACY
1. Redeeming the Republic
2. A Short History of Congress Chamchagiri
3. Hindutva Hate Mail
4. The Past and Future of the Indian Left
5. The Professor and the Protester
6. Gandhi s Faith and Ours
7. Verdicts on Nehru: The Rise and Fall of a Reputation
8. An Asian Clash of Civilizations? The Sino-Indian Conflict Revisited
9. The Beauty of Compromise
PART II: THE WORD AND THE WORLD
10. The Rise and Fall of the Bilingual Intellectual -->
Pluralism in the Indian University 12. In Nehru s House: A Story of Scholarship and Sycophancy
13. Life with a Duchess: A Personal History of the Oxford University Press
14. Turning Crimson at Premier s
15. The Gentle Colossus: Krishna Raj and the EPW
Sources
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Copyright Page
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Pluralism in the Indian University ~
I
In 2007, the National Archives mounted an exhibition on the founding of the first modern universities in India. A Kolkata newspaper gave its report on this exhibition the headline: The Other Revolution of 1857 . This was apt, for the founding of these universities was indeed a revolution, and indeed also the other to the better known revolution of 1857. Call it by whatever name, a sepoy mutiny or a war of independence, that uprising was essentially reactionary, looking back to a period before the white man set foot on the subcontinent. On the other hand, the revolution set in motion by the universities was essentially progressive, looking forward to a time when the white man would finally leave the subcontinent.
Founded in 1857, the universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were the crucible of modernity in India. As the sociologist Andr B teille has written, these universities opened new horizons both intellectually and institutionally in a society that had stood still in a conservative and hierarchical mould for centuries . These universities were among the first open and secular institutions in a society that was governed largely by the rules of kinship, caste and religion .
