{"id":357,"date":"2004-09-09T04:59:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=357"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"new_indian_gove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/new_indian_gove\/","title":{"rendered":"New Indian government frees universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Indian government is unleashing universities from some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shailaja.net\/arjunsuit.htm\">pro-bribery, anti-intellectual freedom regulations<\/a> the previous government imposed:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>[Education minister Arjun Singh] has&#8230; scrapped a controversial order, also issued by the BJP government, that required private donations to public universities to be routed through a special government agency; and allowed India&#8217;s universities to seek collaborations with their foreign counterparts without obtaining the government&#8217;s permission. In addition, Mr. Singh has ordered the replacement of high-school history textbooks that the previous government had changed to reflect a Hindu-supremacist viewpoint.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Centralizing financial control over donor money? No prizes for guessing what the purpose of <i>that<\/i> was. Striking down the new regulations allows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20040824133216&#038;Title=Top+Stories&#038;Topic=0\">more intellectual freedom<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe academics were up in arms because they thought it was an effort to blatantly promote ministerial intervention and curb the autonomy of the universities.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And the education minister calls the reversion of textbooks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=34941\">&#8216;de-saffronisation.&#8217;<\/a> So far, the new Manmohan Singh government is doing good things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Indian government is unleashing universities from some of the pro-bribery, anti-intellectual freedom regulations the previous government imposed: [Education minister Arjun Singh] has&#8230; scrapped a controversial order, also issued by the BJP government, that required private donations to public &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/09\/new_indian_gove\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}