The Colonization of A University (Bihar University Affairs)

Abstract

From Preface: Here is the story of a university treated as a colony of the expanding frontiers of the political aggrandizement of the over-ambitious politicians. The Bihar University has, of late, suffered from unprecedented affliction. Examinations have been bungled. Results have not been announced as due. Questions have leaked out. Good teachers have been victimised and driven out of the University. Teachers of doubtful merit have been pampered on narrow instincts. Thus the standard of education has alarmingly fallen. Classes have had to be suspended. Students have gone on strikes and hunger strikes. There have been violent demonstrations. Students have been involved or implicated in litigation. In fact, education has lost its meaning in these parts. Against this background, the Chancellor of the University appointed a probe into the affairs of the Bihar University.