The academic link between Nepal and India

On February 16, a third-year woman student from Nepal was found dead by suicide in the Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology. Foreign student enrolment in India The latest available All India Survey on Higher Education data reveals that during 2021-22, 46,878 foreign students from 170 nations were enrolled in various institutes of higher learning in India, and that the highest share of foreign students came from Nepal. Letting go of colonial influence Thus, without even being colonised, the colonial legacy of Nepal’s education system was established through two routes: first, by affiliating the first college in Nepal to universities of colonial India, thereby, diminishing any opportunity to premise pedagogy around Nepali roots and branches ; and the second was through college instructors, all of whom had received their master’s degrees from Indian universities, and therefore felt secure in following the same content. In summary, until the 1950s, the colonial legacy of British India strongly influenced Nepal’s education, even when attempts were undertaken to ‘Nepalise’ the education system. Nepal began her independent journey in the sphere of higher education, even though students from Nepal continued to enrol themselves in Indian higher education institutions.