About the Book: Universities and Higher Education System in India
Higher Education has emerged as a new focus area in India in the past two
decades. With the growing diversity and depth of literature on various aspects
of this subject, this field is fast becoming another domain for the exclusive
interventions of experts and policy makers. This book is an attempt to bring to
such a discussion some basic and foundational questions in thinking about higher
education in India. This book is a novel attempt at bringing together several
disciplinary perspectives from institutional theory, philosophy of science,
sociology, management and cultural theory to bear on the fundamental