Elite Indian scholarship is most dependent on metropolitan universities
Evidence
So fundamental and even genetic is the Indian university’s relation with – indeed, dependence upon – its British and American counterparts that knowledges produced there become immediately effective here, in a relation of imperial dominance, shaping even the way we think of ourselves. So, in examining the pressures which impel the metropolitan university to devise new categories for conceptualizing cultural productions in our part of the world, I am speaking also of pressures which are exerted by the metropolitan university upon the already-subordinated Indian university. Nowhere is this parasitic intellectual dependence of the Indian university upon its metropolitan counterparts so obvious as in the teaching of English. And, typically, this dependence tends to be greater at the higher, more elite levels of English teaching in India: the more privileged universities, the handful of the elite colleges, those among the university faculties who are the most lavishly armed with degrees, foreign experience, lists of publications, academic ambitions. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 73
Categorization
- XREF: Plausibly connects to the reader’s general interest in how institutional infrastructures shape knowledge production and intellectual dependence. — connects to: Indian elite English departments depend intellectually on metropolitan universities
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