India, Nov. 18 -- Five scholars from India have been selected for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and head to the University of Oxford in October 2025 to join a cohort of more than a hundred scholars from across the globe and undertake fully funded post-graduate studies.

The five scholars were selected following a competitive application process and two rounds of preliminary interviews, a press release informed.

Additionally, the troop includes a law student committed to citizenship rights, a philosophy student who wants to study epistemological injustice, a literature major who wants to pursue museum anthropology, an aspiring astrophysicist from IIT-Bombay, and a veterinarian dedicated to conservation, the release added.

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