Idea of a university

Includes bibliographical references.

The barbarians have landed! / Alok Rai -- Of pain waves, plastic surgery and panchgavya : the quest for hegemony in the natural sciences / Shobhit Mahajan -- Who's afraid of academic freedom? : the iIlliberal pulls of the public university in India / Debaditya Battacharya -- The logic of academic freedom / Shiv Visvanathan -- The idea of academic freedom / Niraja Gopal Jayal -- Night-thoughts on academics, administration and the universlty / Ram Ramaswamy -- The university : histories, ideas, crises / Mary E. John -- Seeking a universal knowledge space : the idea of an ideal university in Newman, Humboldt and Tagore / Payel Cbattopadhyay Mukherjee -- Questioning academic freedom / Pankaj Chandra -- Neo-liberalism and academic freedom : the emerging scenario / Saumen Chattopadhyay -- Challenges facing our universities / Mohammad Sajjad -- Looking at academic freedom from a no person's land / J. Devika -- Hard words break no bones : sedition, free speech, academic freedoms and sovereignty in India / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Academic freedom and Indian universities / Nandini Sundar -- Academic unfreedoms / Francesca Orsini -- International reflections on university autonomy and freedoms / Quentin Thompson -- Re-envisioning academic freedom : reflections of an early career professional / Irfanullah Farooqi -- Freedom as intellectual necessity / Vinay K. Kantha.

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