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Dr. Zakir Hussain, Vice-Chancellor of the Aligarh University, on January 25 pleaded for autonomy for the universities so that they could play their vital role in the growth, development and enrichment of national life in free India. Presiding over the 30th annual meeting of the Inter-University Board of India, Burma and Ceylon, he said, "Whatever be the legal fiction, the universities in India, during the period of foreign rule, had not been autonomous in any real sense of the word. That was one of the chief reasons, in my view, why they did not grow into as vigorous and as significant centres of the nation's intellectual and moral life as one could well wish. This has to be changed in a free India. Freedom is the life-breath of the intellectual and moral life of which the universities must be the cherished centres. On the scrupulous preservation of academic freedom depends the strength and vitality of the universities as transmitters of culture, as critical appraisers of culture, as places extending the boundaries of knowledge. The wisdom of our generation is on test in our country for devising methods of liberal financial assistance by the State without any desire to influence or coerce the working of the universities. The British, from whom we can now safely learn, have shown the way to stand this test most satisfactorily. The assistance given by the University Grants Commission of Great Britain to the universities without anything like even the semblance of interference or control presents an admirable example, which, I am sure, will be emulated in India."
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