CONTENTS: Introduction 1. The Impossibility of Dalit Studies 2. Unequal Schooling and the Challenges for Higher Education in India 3. Critical Thinking and Academic Writing (in English): A Look at Ashoka University’s Academic Bridge Programme 4. Inclusion, Diversity and Writing: Centre for Writing and Communication at Ashoka University 5. The Classroom as the ‘Field’: Consolidating Writing Pedagogy Through Ethnographic Documentation 6. Rethinking Higher Education Practice Within Academic Audit Regimes 7. The ‘Dangerous Ground’ for Democracy: Doing Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in the Public University Notes on Editor and Contributors