The Changing Discursive Terrain of Indian Higher Education

This paper presents a systematic discussion on the changes taking place in Indian higher education in order to explain their systematicity and organization in terms of a changing discursive knowledge. The paper engages in an innovative and rare methodology used in studying the field of higher education. It adopts an alternate lens using Foucault's ideas to understand the practices and policy instances in Indian higher education for uncovering the dominant discourses underneath its formation. It elaborates how market subjectivities and accountabilities stands apart as the most profound savoir (discursive knowledge) that guides the overall directionality of Indian higher education in the recent times.