Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit (born 15 July 1962) is an Indian academic and the current Vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi(JNU).

Quotes

• Everybody begins (talking about) India at 1947. I think India is a Civilization. And as a civilizational state, are we saying that we had no norms earlier?” “There’s a dichotomy among Indian scholars – some who believe that the Indian tradition communal and if it is touched, that would make India a sectarian state. But at the same time, we applaud China doing it on its Confucian tradition and bringing a lot of texts on strategic thought.
  • Santishree Pandit quoted in “Indian History is not Mughal and Nehru-Gandhi dynasty History”: JNU VC in an old speech, video goes viral

• When Rajendra Chola completed 1000 years of his rule (in 2014), no one celebrated it. So we are a marginalised history of India.” Indian history is not Mughal history and not and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. I think we should go beyond that.”“We have been builders of norms when it comes to statecraft, individual freedom, tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and (although) not soft power but sublime power and spiritual universalism,” Pandit further added. “The soil in which you transplant institutions has to be equally fertile and acceptive as the institutions themselves.”
  • Santishree Pandit quoted in “Indian History is not Mughal and Nehru-Gandhi dynasty History”: JNU VC in an old speech, video goes viral