Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Jawaharlal Nehru University is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. Named after Jawaharlal Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India), the university is among the premier universities in India in the field of Liberal arts,Languages, Political Science and Economics. The buildings are architecturally distinct and are dominated by a seven storied red-brick library and buildings housing lecture halls around it. It is considered by many to be a bastion of left-wing thought.
The JNU Students' Union
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union has traditionally been a prominent leading voice of the socialist students' movement in India. The JNUSU is the only students' union in the country which has produced two politburo members of the largest communist party in India, the CPI(M), including its present General Secretary (Prakash Karat). The JNUSU has a unique constitution, entirely drafted by the students. The elections to the JNUSU are administered by students as well. During the Emergency, the JNUSU protested Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's visit to the campus. The refusal by the centre-left student organisation to protest the Tiananmen Square massacre, however, led to changes in the political climate of the University. In recent years, the union's leftist hue has been somewhat challenged by a number of electoral victories for the Hindu nationalist ABVP, which captured the student union presidency by a margin of one vote in 2000. One of the reasons usually cited, is the rivalry between the centre-left student wing of the CPM, the SFI and the far-left. Presently the union is shared between the centre-leftist SFI and the far-left AISASchools
- Arts and Aesthetics
- Computer and Systems Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Information Technology
- International Studies
- Language, Literature and Culture Studies
- Life Sciences
- Physical Sciences
- Social Sciences
Special Centers
- Center for Biotechnology
- Special Center for Molecular medicine
- Center for the Study of Law and Governance
- Special Center for Sanskrit Studies
Centre for Russian Studies
This centre was earlier known as the Institute for Russian Studies and was established with the help of Soviet Union before the inception of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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