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Dr Adesh Pal is new Gujarat University VC

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Saturday, 01 September 2012 06:05

Published on Saturday, 01 September 2012 16:05

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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad

Dr Adesh Pal, professor and head of the department of the English department at the Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University has been selected as the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the Gujarat University.

The VC search committee had recommended names of three probable candidates to the government. They were Kailash Sodani, Aadesh Pal and Anamik Shah. Dr Sodani works in the Udaipur University while Shah is a professor in the department of Chemistry in Saurashtra University. 

Pal, who has been appointed in the university’s syndicate following a court order, is known to be close to national BJP leaders. He is the coordinator of the Centre for Indian Diaspora and Cultural Studies and specializes in cultural theories, post-colonialism, Indian Nationalism and Diasporic Studies. He had pursued his PhD in 1988 from Institute of Advanced Studies, Meerut University.

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