JNU Stories: The First 50 Years

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Introduction: A Red-brick University with a Difference
I: SPACES AND PLACES
	1.  Landscape Stories: The Archaeological Pasts and Presents of the JNU Campus
	2.  The Architectural Imagination of a New University
	3.  Living with Nature
II: IMAGINING THE UNIVERSITY
	4.  A University is Set Up
	5.  A Prospectus for a New University
	6.  Heady, Informal, Inclusive: The Early Years
	7.  A Unique Experiment
III: OF SCHOOLS AND CENTRES
	8.  The Centre for Russian Studies
	9.  CHS That Was
	10. JNU in the First Decade: A Place of Intellectual Discovery
	11. New Life at JNU: ISIS to SIS
	12. Science Laboratory to Administrative Building
	13. Science at JNU: The Early Years
	14. Physical Sciences at JNU: The First Twenty-five Years
	15. The Culture of Cultivating Biological Science Teaching and Research at JNU
	16. Setting up the School of Arts and Aesthetics
	17. Women’s Studies at JNU: Or, a Short Story about Feminism and the University
	18. An Experiment in Interdisciplinarity: Founding and Evolution of CSLG
	19. Setting up Northeast Studies at JNU
IV: SITES OF LEARNING
	20. CHS Tutorials
	21. The Classroom
	22. Philosophy at Night
	23. Learning Outside the Classroom
	24. An Accidental Education
	25. The Sensory Archive’s Analysis (SAA): Manner & Means
	26. The Library at the Crossroads
	27. Jawaharlal Nehru University Library—Some Reminiscences
	28. A Photostat Shop at JNU
V: LIVING AND LOVING
	29. Recollections of JNU
	30. Residing in JNU
	31. Two Views of the Periyar Hostel
	32. Sabarmati Hostel
	33. The Heat of a Thousand Suns: JNU in the Late Seventies
	34. After the Plague, the Paris Commune of Peacocks
	35. Main Sarak se Aaya Tha
	36. On Committees, Dogs, and Toilets at JNU
VI: POLITICS, POSTERS, PERFORMANCES
	37. ‘Study and Struggle’: A Fragment from JNU (1988–98)
	38. Reshaping Political Culture on the Campus
	39. My Story of JNUTA
	40. The JNU Student Movement During NDA-I
	41. JNU’s Lasting Gifts to Me
	42. Peace in Mizoram and the Role of JNU Students
	43. Pink Among the Reds
	44. Sounds of Silence
	45. Walls that Speak: The Mural Tradition of JNU
	46. JNU Satyagraha Movement, 2018
	47. Student Union President’s Speech at Freedom Square
VII: GIVING MEANING TO SOCIAL DIVERSITY
	48. A Transformative Experience
	49. My Yashoda
	50. My Story of JNU
VIII: POLITICS OF GENDER
	51. The GSCASH Movement: A Fragment (1997–98)
	52. Queering the Campus: The Anjuman Experience (2003-06)
	53. Parwaaz: Reflections on Independent Gender-based Activism in Campus
IX: THE WAY THINGS WERE
	54. JNU: Fifty Years of Existence
	55. Reminiscences
	56. JNU Under Emergency: Then and Now
	57. ‘May 1983’: An Irreverent Memoir
	58. The Cup that Cost a PhD
	59. Silver Memories
	60. जेएनयू परिसर
	61. मेरा अनुभव
	62. जेएनयू में हिन्दी
X: PROMISES TO FULFIL
	63. Twenty-five Years of JNU: Betrayal After a Promising Start
	64. Interdisciplinary/Interdisciplinarity
	65. Translation and Inclusivity
XI: MEMORIES FROM AFAR
	66. Jñānāraṇyer Dinarātri: Reminiscences of a Semester at JNU
	67. Sweet Chai and Restless Thinking
	68. The Firangi in 306
	69. Looking Back
XII: THE SPIRIT OF JNU
	70. The World of JNU
	71. Saraswati, Mahishasura, and Durga: Love, JNU, and a Mythology of Dissent
	72. On Many Ways of Being a JNUite
	73. My University Exists Within Me
	74. If You Come to JNU
	75. Reflections on the Statue of Jawaharlal Nehru at JNU
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
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