JNU

Jawaharlal Nehru University known popularly as JNU is one of India''s premier institutions of higher learning. This book explores the life of the university from its conception in 1964 to the period when the institution was entering its phase of major transition in 1989. Unlike usual histories of universities it brings to life the intricate web of relationship between the founding principles of the university contemporary politics and society and the historical trajectories of Indian intellectual and institutional lives. This is the definitive history of what the author argues may be the last of the nationalist institutions and the grandest of them all.