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• Monday | 01 Jun, 1998
• Tariq Rahman
• Research Reports,Project Publications
• 42

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Tariq Rahman, SDPI 1998 Abstract The universities were established by the colonial British government in 1858 so as to produce educated Indians to serve in the expanding bureaucracy. As government and security were the major concerns of the colonial government they made the bureaucracy (ICS) and the military prestigious and efficient institutions while higher education remained subordinate, government-controlled and poor. Being unattractive, the universities  could not attract the most competent students and remained mediocre teaching institutions with almost no research.  This continues in Pakistan because the ruling elites of Pakistan continue to govern the country in the colonial tradition of the past.  In the last section certain changes are suggested to make the universities more academically competent.