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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 8, February 22, 2025

AMU: Institution of Learning or Intellectual Ghetto? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

Saturday 22 February 2025, by M R Narayan Swamy

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEW[/blanc][/fond noir]

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AMU: Institution of Learning or Identity
by Anil Maheshwari and Arjun Maheshwari

Ink/Occam
Pages: xvii + 431; Price: Rs 899

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Anil Maheshwari, the lead author I know, is as secular an Indian as one can be. The book recognises, and rightly so, how the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has come under repeated and unfair attacks from the Hindu Right because of its Islamic character. The authors are against the Modi government