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A History of the Indian University SystemIndian University System: Emerging from the Shadows of the Past

A History of the Indian University System: Indian University System: Emerging from the Shadows of... [India gained its independence on 15 August 1947. The first Prime Minister of the independent nation, Jawaharlal Nehru was an intellectual and a consummate politician. If anyone had the vision and capability to reform the moribund examination-oriented university system in India, it was Nehru. A graduate of Cambridge University, Nehru was a man brimming with ideas as he took charge of the newly independent country. Yet, although the higher education system, on the whole, experienced important changes after the independence, the mainstream university system continued, in the main, unreformed. This chapter concerns itself with the main developments within the higher education system during the post-independence period. The attempt here is to provide an explanation of the important changes and also the lack of them within the mainstream universities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of the Indian University SystemIndian University System: Emerging from the Shadows of the Past

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-137-53570-2
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125 –145
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10.1057/978-1-137-53571-9_6
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[India gained its independence on 15 August 1947. The first Prime Minister of the independent nation, Jawaharlal Nehru was an intellectual and a consummate politician. If anyone had the vision and capability to reform the moribund examination-oriented university system in India, it was Nehru. A graduate of Cambridge University, Nehru was a man brimming with ideas as he took charge of the newly independent country. Yet, although the higher education system, on the whole, experienced important changes after the independence, the mainstream university system continued, in the main, unreformed. This chapter concerns itself with the main developments within the higher education system during the post-independence period. The attempt here is to provide an explanation of the important changes and also the lack of them within the mainstream universities.]

Published: Mar 8, 2017

Keywords: Provincial Government; High Education System; Planning Commission; High Education Sector; Autonomous Institute

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