How the Humanities Can Protect India Against the Attacks on Its Freedoms

Brinda Bose

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Abstract: Humanities departments in public universities are under attack across the country for their potential to spawn dissent. We need them to take the fight to the powers that be. [Transcript of a talk presented at a panel discussion on "The Future of the Humanities" hosted by the Columbia Global Centers–South Asia, at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, on September 3, 2015.]

Keywords: humanities; public universities; teachers movements; attacks on intellectuals; Kalburgi; social sciences; vigilantism; Hindutva (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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