Sep 03 2014 : The Times of India (Delhi)

Noted Jamia scholar accused of plagiarism

Akshaya Mukul

New Delhi:





A shocking case of plagiarism has come out involving Janaki Rajan, a leading educationist teaching in Jamia Millia Islamia's department of teacher training & non-formal education.Rajan, also a member of the National Council of Teacher Education, whose work among teachers in Delhi and elsewhere has received wide acclaim, has been accused of lifting portions of her 1991 PhD thesis from Jadunath Sinha's book Indian Psychology: Cognition, a 1958 publication of Sinha Publishing House.
Huge chunks of Rajan's 1991 dissertation -Cognitive Development in Primary School Children with Particular Reference to the Con cepts of Space and Time -from Osmania University are allegedly taken from Sinha. Rajan's list of bibliography does not mention Sinha's book as a source. Rajan told TOI, “This is not true. I will comment only if it is brought to my notice.“ She refused to give any explanation. The plagiarism was discovered by a research scholar working on perceptions of teachers of higher education on the role of mass media in checking corruption. Sinha was a Premchand Roychand Scholar who taught in Meerut College. He was also author of a two-volume history of Indian philosophy . A subsection of Rajan's chapter II (Review of Literature) is entirely taken from chapter VIII of Sinha's book.
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