Why is public higher education important? How can a country as economically and socially prosperity of its population through a robust public higher system? Dilemmas in Reforming Higher Education in India, which includes a short selection of writings of Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, brings together scholar, critical articles written over a period marked by revolutionary changes in the history of higher education around the world-and discusses how higher education, a valuable and special public good, can counter the many tensions between tradition and modernity.