Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. Named for Jawaharlal Nehru (the first Prime Minister of India), the university, is considered to be among the best universities in India, and is especially important for the study of the humanities. The institution has a distinctly intellectual slant to it and is also equally known for the politics it engenders in the people that have passed through its corridors. 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 leftwing thought.
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The JNU Students' Union
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students'Union has traditionally been the leader 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. 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. In recent years, the union's socialist credentials have been somewhat tarnished by a number of electoral victories for the Hindu nationalist ABVP.
Schools
- 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