JNU: NATIONALISM AND INDIA’S UNCIVIL WAR

9 February 2016: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) erupted with / 'anti-national' slogans. Arrests of student leaders, the shutdown of the / university, a lecture series on 'What the Nation Needs to Know', a student's / disappearance, another's suicide and a number of even more disruptive / protests ensued. / JNU: Nationalism and India's Uncivil War, by a long-standing JNU professor, / is a ringside account of what happened. Delicately and incisively crafted, / it is an empathetic insider's account of JNU's problems from an expert / in the field of higher education. Through this book, the author makes an / impassioned plea to transform rather than destroy JNU, as also reform / higher education. But more than that, this book is also a history of our / times, of India's ongoing transformation, the story of the changing self apprehension of a nation./ Examining the multiple meanings of nationalism in our time, Paranjape delves / deeply into what it means to be an Indian today. He offers his perception / and understanding of the new India that is fast emerging as India enters / its 75th year of Independence./