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A biographer of the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi will not take up his post as a professor of humanities at a new university after Hindu nationalist student groups objected to his appointment, The Guardian reported.
Ramachandra Guha wrote on Twitter that he would not be joining the faculty at Ahmedabad University “due to circumstances beyond my control.” A student group affiliated with the party of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, had complained that Guha’s work was “critical of India’s Hindu culture.”
The Guardian reported that Guha had been asked to delay the start of his appointment until after the parliamentary elections, and he had declined to do so. Ahmedabad University has denied that it was pressured by the student group.
