India’s Campuses Hijacked | The BHU Story | Saumya Dey in conversation with Aditi Joshi | Itihasdhir

In this episode of Itihasdhir, Aditi Joshi is in conversation with author Saumya Dey on his book BHU, a powerful examination of how Banaras Hindu University became a microcosm of India’s larger intellectual and ideological struggle. From the civilisational vision of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya to the slow capture of campuses by imported ideologies, the discussion explores how education, power, and narrative control intersect in modern India. This conversation goes beyond student politics to ask uncomfortable but necessary questions: Who decides what is taught? Whose knowledge is legitimised? And why are institutions rooted in Bharatiya thought constantly portrayed as regressive?

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