ABSTRACT
The Introduction gives an overview of the volume. The volume has brought together some of the most distinguished academics from Indian universities (except one from the University of Columbia in the US) in the field to debate on the status of the humanities in the academic programmes of the universities. The issues raised touched upon the entire gamut of problems facing a university of our times finding an adequate, rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum: problems such as the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities, the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads made by them in the teaching and practice of all disciplines, the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities of India, digitisation of “humanities” and its impact particularly on research in the concerned disciplines, the widely accepted contemporary view of the non-unitary nature of the concept of humanity itself have been discussed.
