The university established in 1969 by an Act of Parliament, is accused of "providing legitimacy to anti-India forces."
A magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Panchajanya, has called the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) a "huge anti-national block which has the aim of disintegrating India."
The RSS is the ideological mentor of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
To bolster its allegations against the JNU, the Panchajanya claims in its cover article that the university's "pro-Naxal students' unions" openly celebrated the killing of 75 security personnel in a Maoist ambush in Chhattisgarh in 2010. The article says "JNU routinely hosts anti-national activities."
Students have reacted sharply to the article, which also alleges that JNU is an "institute where nationalism is considered an offence." Another article says: "Presenting Indian culture in a distorted way is common. The removal of Army from Kashmir is supported here. They advocate various other anti-national activities here."
The university established in 1969 by an Act of Parliament, is accused of "providing legitimacy to anti-India forces."
"Jawahar Lal Nehru promoted higher educational and research institutions as factories of socialist ideology which could provide the intellectual input for his and later Indira Gandhi's social and economic agenda," the article says.
Shehyla Rashid, Vice President of JNUSU said "that the RSS deemed anything that went against their line of thought as anti-national...it was either their ideology that prevailed or none"
The article said JNU's "tendency" of relying on the state for resource was "inspired by two things - bitterness for Hindus and an urge to break India."
Dr Sunita Reddy, a professor at JNU's Department of Social Sciences, said: "RSS does not like institutions that encourage critical thought."
The Congress' Manish Tewari also reacted, saying: "This is an attack on foremost academic institutions. There is a need for progressive forces to stand together and defeat RSS efforts to undermine academic institutions."