A Half-Century of Indian Higher Education features a select collection of writings on Indian higher education by Professor Philip G. Altbach. Professor Altbach's research papers and articles on Indian higher education—published in journals, periodicals, newspapers and books worldwide—not only established him as a noted expert on Indian higher education but also inspired numerous studies in this area.
This volume, edited by Pawan Agarwal, brings together 34 seminal writings of Professor Altbach on universities and colleges, knowledge production and distribution, academic profession, globalization and open-door policies, academic publishing, campus politics and comparative studies on Indian and Chinese systems. The articles provide an invaluable access to the various issues that have profoundly shaped India's higher education system during the last five decades. They give a comprehensive reading of the development of higher education in post-Independence India in a simple yet gripping style and affirm Professor Altbach's enduring commitment to this area.

The book includes in-depth reflective articles for each of its seven sections by well-known experts on higher education. It also features an insightful interview with Professor Altbach that illuminates many vital areas of higher education worldwide.

ntroduction Philip G Altbach
I: HIGHER EDUCATION AND MODERNISATION
Challenges of Modernisation in Higher Education Fazal Rizvi
The Permanent Crisis of Indian Higher Education
Problems of University Reform
Higher Education and Modernization: The Indian Case
The Dilemma of Change in Indian Higher Education
A World-Class Country without World-Class Higher Education: India's 21st Century Dilemma
Tiny at the Top
Vedanta University: A Flawed Pipe Dream
Can India Garner the Demographic Dividend? (with N Jayaram)
II: ACADEMIC PROFESSION
Whither the Academic Profession in India N Jayaram
In Search of Saraswati: The Ambivalence of the Indian Academic
The Distorted Guru: The College Teacher in Bombay
III: REGIONAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
The State and Higher Education: An Uneasy Relationship M Anandakrishnan
Bombay Colleges
The University Context
Book Publishing in a Developing Regional Culture: The Case of Maharashtra, India
Progressive State (with Eldho Mathews)
Temples and World-Class Universities
Right Concept, Wrong Place
IV: GLOBALIZATION AND OPEN-DOOR POLICIES
Altbach on Globalisation and Open-door Policies K B Powar
Beware of the Trojan Horse
Towards Creation of World-Class Universities (with N Jayaram)
Is Open Door in Higher Education Desirable?
The Global Academic Revolution: Implications for India
V: PUBLISHING AND LANGUAGE ISSUES IN INDIA
Deconstructing the Imperium: Publishing, Language Question, and the Future of Indian Higher Eucation Arvind Radhakrishnan
Book Publishing in a Developing Regional Culture: The Case of Maharashtra, India
Neocolonialism and Indian Publishing
Publishing in Developing Countries: India as a Case Study
Centre and Periphery: The Case of India
The Imperial Tongue: English as the Dominating Academic Language
VI: CAMPUS POLITICS
Student Movement: Now and Then K N Panikkar
The Transformation of the Indian Student Movement
Anatomy of Indian Student Unrest
Indian Campus Politics
Student Politics and Higher Education in India
The Transition of the Bombay Student Movement
India and the World University Crisis
Student Politics: Historical Perspective and the Changing Scene
VII: INDIA AND CHINA-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Comparing China and India Rafiq Dossani
Gigantic Peripheries: India and China in World Knowledge System
Confucius and the Guru: The Changing Status of the Academic Profession in China and India (with N Jayaram)
The Giants Awake: Higher Education Systems in China and India
"Massification Has Unanticipated Consequences": Interview with Philip G. Altbach Eldho Mathew
Afterword: India's Higher Education Challenges Philip G. Altbach
Epilogue: Higher Education in India-The Twelfth Plan and Beyond