Globalization and Higher Education in India

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Challenges Before Higher Education in Developing Societies

Prabhat Patnaik

The twentieth century witnessed some momentous developments. Countries which for decades, or even centuries, had remained colonies, semi-colonies or dependencies, acquired political independence after prolonged freedom struggles. With decolonization, they also emerged into modern nationhood, where diverse people with dissimilar languages, ethnicities and regional identities, who had become unified in the course of the anti-colonial struggles, decided to live together as a unified nation under a single nation-state. The political form given to this nation-state was typically that of an electoral democracy based on universal adult franchise, usually a parliamentary democracy ...