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9 February 2016: Jawaharlal\n Nehru University (JNU) erupted with ‘anti-national’ slogans. Arrests of\n student leaders, the shutdown of the university, a lecture series on ‘What\n the Nation Needs to Know’, a student’s disappearance, another’s suicide and a\n number of even more disruptive protests ensued. JNU: Nationalism and India’s\n Uncivil War, by a long-standing JNU professor, is a ringside account of what\n happened. Delicately and incisively crafted, it is an empathetic insider’s\n account of JNU’s problems from an expert in the field of higher education.\n Through this book, the author makes an impassioned plea to transform rather\n than destroy JNU, as also reform higher education. But more than that, this\n book is also a history of our times, of India’s ongoing transformation, the\n story of the changing selfapprehension of a nation. Examining the multiple\n meanings of nationalism in our time, Paranjape delves deeply into what it\n means to be an Indian today. He gives his perception and understanding of the\n new India that is fast emerging as India enters its 75th year of\n Independence.
Makarand R. Paranjape is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was educated at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Masters and PhD in English. He is the author/editor of over forty books and has published over 150 book chapters, refereed papers, and academic articles. His latest publications include @The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi," "Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority," and "Body Offering," a novel. He is currently the inaugural DAAD-Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair in Global Literary Studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany
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