New Books in Education · Marshall Poe
Debaditya Bhattacharya, "The Indian University: A Critical History" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
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Debaditya Bhattacharya exposes how Delhi University's 2010 semester overhaul ignored teachers on exploitative contracts and disadvantaged students.
As heard by us
A patient history of the Indian university as a site of public money, caste anxiety, and publicness.
The review presents the Indian university as a history of publicness: who higher education was for, who feared it, and how colonial policy shaped the institution across colonial and postcolonial time.
Why you'd press play
If you want a slow, serious map of caste, public money, and the Indian university.
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