CSH is delighted to announce that Dr. Laurence Gautier, researcher and member of the Documenting Democracy: History, Politics, Citizenship area of the CSH, has had excerpts from her book “Between Nation and ‘Community’: Muslim Universities and Indian Politics After Partition” published in The Wire entitled “AMU Is No Stranger to How Students’ Protests Are Co-Opted for Political Gains” on Sunday, 12th May 2024.

Read the book excerpt here: https://thewire.in/history/aligarh-muslim-university-1965-ali-yavar-jung-excerpt

Abstract: A book excerpt highlights how, in 1965, factional rivalries between Ali Yavar Jung’s followers and those who supported AMU’s pro-vice-chancellor came to crystallise multi-layered divisions between conservatives and reformists.