ABSTRACT
Geddes’ ideal of a modern Indian university was clearly a Western one. Describing the requirements of the university and a regional research center “to an Indian friend” in 1903, Geddes claimed: “This whole construction expresses both these aspects of the Western mind, which are becoming interesting and suggestive to the Eastern one.” 1 He believed that the new Indian university should be based upon his global suggestions for educational reconstruction, advocating similar methods in the name of modernization and Europeanization. 2 Courses which Geddes presented in Bombay, before he became Chair of Civics and Sociology as well as after, presented identical ideas, repeating his theory from base to top. 3
