Higher Education Policies. Mehta also resigned from the Executive Committee of the prestigious Nehru Memorial Museum & Library in 2016 to protest the appointment of a politically-connected bureaucrat as director. He cited discomfort at being complicit in what he considered was the marginalisation of academic considerations by the government in making the appointment. Mr Mehta also believes that reading news from authentic sources is the need of the hour especially when the youth of the nation is using websites such as Wikipedia to gain information and form an opinion, especially when misinformation and disinformation is on the rise. From 2017 to 2019, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University, a position from where he resigned citing academic reasons. He resigned from Ashoka University as a professor in March 2021, when trustees Pramath Raj Sinha and Ashish Dhawan are said to have told Mehta that "his intellectual interventions were something they could no longer protect.". The circumstances of Mehta's resignation also led to protests across Ashoka University, which involved student-led class boycotts. The students also demanded the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Malabika Sarkar unless the administration offered Mehta his job back. Selected works Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education (ed. with Devesh Kapur), Orient BlackSwan, 2017 Rethinking Public Institutions in India (ed. with Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav), Oxford University Press, 2017 The Oxford Companion to Indian Constitution (ed. with Madhav Khosla and Sujit Choudhary), Oxford University Press, 2016 Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order (ed. with W. P. Sidhu and Bruce Jones) Brookings, 2013 Non Alignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century (with Sunil Khilnani et al.) Penguin, 2013 The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (ed. with Niraja Jayal), Oxford University Press, 2010 Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design (ed. with Devesh Kapur), Oxford University Press, 2005 The Burden of Democracy Penguin, 2003 References External links Biography of Pratap Bhanu Mehta from the webpage of Centre for Policy Research The Centre For Policy Research: List of Dr. Mehta's papers and articles Interview with Karan Thapar Living people Indian political philosophers Indian political scientists Indian institute directors Harvard University staff Alumni of St John's College, Oxford 1967 births 21st-century Indian Jains