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Manhar Bansal, a final-year pupil of the five-year BA LLB (Hons.) programme at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, has been selected arsenic 1 of the six Rhodes Scholars-Elect from India for 2026.
With this, Mr. Bansal becomes the 26th student from the NLSIU to person the prestigious scholarship. He volition articulation a cohort of implicit 100 scholars from crossed the satellite astatine the University of Oxford successful October 2026, wherever helium plans to prosecute Master of Studies in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation.
The Rhodes Scholarship, established in 1903, is the world’s oldest and among the astir prestigious postgraduate fellowships. In India, the assistance has been awarded since 1947 to 5 outstanding applicants. This year, a sixth scholarship, awarded successful concern with the Radhakrishnan-Rajan Family, was included.
Hailing from Muktsar successful Punjab, Mr. Bansal has pursued an interdisciplinary world way astatine the NLSIU, with a absorption connected doctrine and literature. His enactment examines the possibilities of a quality aforesaid that is influenced by but not reducible to its socio-historical contexts. His penning has been published successful respective platforms and recognised by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the South Asian Studies Association of Australia, said a release.
At the NLSIU, helium served arsenic main exertion of a pupil journal, headed a student-run world support programme and co-convened a mentation speechmaking group. Outside academics, helium has been learning French, writes a nationalist newsletter, and enjoys dancing and swimming. He hopes to physique a public-facing world career centred on humanistic education, added the release.
