Indian elite English departments depend intellectually on metropolitan universities

Evidence

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. It is with disorientations of elite scholarship in our institutions that I am here implicitly most concerned. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Reads against Foucault’s genealogy of knowledge-power transfer and the postcolonial dependence motif Ahmad develops; connects to the reader’s track on how metropolitan theory shapes colonial knowledge production. — connects to: Elite Indian scholarship is most dependent on metropolitan universities — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 73; Third World Literature as a field was professionalized by metropolitan universities — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 185; Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 299 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Elite Indian scholarship is most dependent on metropolitan universities #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 73
• Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature. #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 299
• Metropolitan institutions staffed by Westerners generate most Third World knowledge #expands (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 309
• English literature has shaped the very categories of modern Indian thought #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 541
• Third World Literature as a field was professionalized by metropolitan universities #qualifies (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 185