In Rural India, an Ambitious Academic Vision

A mining mogul with big ideas is determined to build an elite, American-style university for 100,000 students in Orissa. Farmers, who own the land he wants to develop, plan to resist.

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

Bhubaneshwar, India

A few miles outside the town of Puri, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, lies Beladala,...