Sociology of South Asia: In Waiting for the Revolution

The university in modern South Asia: Historiographical framings between the local and the global

“…14 14 For a discussion of the global historical roots of the social sciences, see Adelman (2019) and Steinmetz (2013). For preliminary considerations of the evolution of the social sciences in postcolonial India, see Chatterjee (2003), Vijayakumar and Radhakrishnan (2022), George (2022). …”

“…Some examples relevant to the South Asian case includeSackley (2011Sackley ( , 2012;Parmar (2012);Garg (2020);Kumar (2022);Unger (2011).11 Recent examples includeDaechsel (2015);Engerman (2018); Siegel (2018).12 For an example of this framing, but from a different regional context, seeLivsey (2017).13 One of the first Indians to earn a doctorate in engineering from MIT, who later became president of the Bengal Engineering College.14 For a discussion of the global historical roots of the social sciences, seeAdelman (2019) andSteinmetz (2013). For preliminary considerations of the evolution of the social sciences in postcolonial India, seeChatterjee (2003),Vijayakumar and Radhakrishnan (2022),George (2022).15 This is a subject that has recently been taken up byPrakash Kumar (2022).16 A recent monograph on the history of the National College of Arts Lahore includes a section on higher technical education under the modernization agendas of the 1950s(Tarar (2022)). Given that the historiography of universities in Pakistan is even more limited than that of India, this brief foray helps raise valuable questions about the divergent trajectories taken by higher education development in Pakistan.17 For examples of work on international scholarship programs in other geographic contexts, seeTournès and Scott-Smith (2018).…”