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by sn41
811 days ago
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Your response is not entirely correct. Lucknow university was not toe-to-toe with anything. But you are right, Allahabad university had people like Meghnad Saha and C. V. Raman working there at some point. Also, Mulayam Singh did not come into power until the 1990s. The deterioration of universities all over India (not just UP and Bihar) started soon after Independence, with the nascent government looking for leapfrogs through the establishment of IITs, RECs and medical colleges, diverting money away from full-fledged universities. This policy has had some success, but the universities were left in shambles. India has still not done course-correction on that. |
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Back when my Nanu was helping with all this post-independence "mandirs of science" stuff in the 60s-70s period Lucknow University was fairly competitive in Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, and Aerospace because of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd - their secondary R&D and production center was Lucknow as it was close enough to Delhi for government oversight yet far enough that it wouldn't be impacted by a India-Pakistan War.
> universities were left in shambles
Yet Osmania, Panjab, Visevarya, Anna, etc continued to perform (and in some cases still do) in STEM.
They never truly declined in the 1960s-2000s period, while Bihar and UP's GDPs both crashed under Lalu and Mulayam, and largely because of de-industrialization in Eastern UP and Bihar due to their warped version of Lohiaism (which Lohia would have hated)