A Factual Analysis of the Banaras Hindu University Mudaliar Committee Report

Abstract

From Preface: In the following pages an attempt has been made to offer comments on what the Mudaliar Committee has to say about the Banaras Hindu University by way of criticism and by way of suggestions for its improvement. The Committee was set up by the Visitor in June, 1957. It carried on prolonged investigations and submitted its report practically after one year. The report was released to the press on the 14th of June, ’58 and simultaneously an Ordinance was promulgated suspending the Constitution of the University and vesting the power of administration in the Vice Chancellor and a nominated Committee of advisers. The Ordinance also made provision for a Screening Committee which is to examine the records of those University employees who are deemed dangerous or unworthy of service in the University. The report and the. Ordinance raise certain issues involving questions of University autonomy, and social justice, and constitutional and legal propriety; and consequently they must be examined closely with a view to correcting the errors and redressing the wrongs which have ensued from them.