Unburdening the Constitution: What Has the Indian Constitution Got to Do with Private Universities, Modernity and Nation States?

• Main Author: DAM, Shubhankar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: nation states; education; Indian Constitution; private universities; technology; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research_smu/8; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sol_research_smu
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article critically analyses the decision of the Indian Supreme Court in Yashpal and another v. State of Chhattisgarh and others holding the establishment of private universities as unconstitutional. Swayed by the overwhelmingly irresponsible character of the respondent universities, the Supreme...