The idea of a university
Subtitle: essays
By: edited by Apoorvanand
Publisher: Context
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Chennai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789387894259
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Universities and colleges; Academic freedom; Higher Education; Educational sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The barbarians have landed! / Alok Rai; title: Of pain waves, plastic surgery and panchgavya : the quest for hegemony in the natural sciences / Shobhit Mahajan; title: Who's afraid of academic freedom? : the iIlliberal pulls of the public university in India / Debaditya Battacharya; title: The logic of academic freedom / Shiv Visvanathan; title: The idea of academic freedom / Niraja Gopal Jayal; title: Night-thoughts on academics, administration and the universlty / Ram Ramaswamy; title: The university : histories, ideas, crises / Mary E. John; title: Seeking a universal knowledge space : the idea of an ideal university in Newman, Humboldt and Tagore / Payel Cbattopadhyay Mukherjee; title: Questioning academic freedom / Pankaj Chandra; title: Neo-liberalism and academic freedom : the emerging scenario / Saumen Chattopadhyay; title: Challenges facing our universities / Mohammad Sajjad; title: Looking at academic freedom from a no person's land / J. Devika; title: Hard words break no bones : sedition, free speech, academic freedoms and sovereignty in India / Kalpana Kannabiran; title: Academic freedom and Indian universities / Nandini Sundar; title: Academic unfreedoms / Francesca Orsini; title: International reflections on university autonomy and freedoms / Quentin Thompson; title: Re-envisioning academic freedom : reflections of an early career professional / Irfanullah Farooqi; title: Freedom as intellectual necessity / Vinay K. Kantha.