000			01632cam a2200145 i 4500
020			_a9781138106383
082			_a001.30711054 _bPLA
245	1	4	_aThe place of humanities in our universities
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2018
300			_avi, 214p.
520			_aThis volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place, meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country, it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon the entire gamut of problems that a university faces in finding an adequate, rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum. It discusses the difficulties in the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities, the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads in the teaching and practice of all disciplines, the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities in India, the culture, value and the idea of the university, digitisation of the humanities and online access and their specific impact on research in the concerned disciplines. The volume also presents an instructive debate on the so-called appropriation of traditional social science concerns by other departments. This book will interest those in education, humanities and social sciences, governance and public policy, and South Asian studies.
650		0	_aHumanities _ahigher education -India _aAcadenic programme-University
700	1		_aMiri, Mrinal,Ed.
942			_cBK
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