Inclusion of readings on ‘Yoginipura’, believed to be a website in Delhi, and omission of an necessary article by famend historian Professor Irfan Habib — whilst Delhi College’s Tutorial Council (AC) handed these adjustments in a Historical past paper, school members issued a dissent observe throughout the assembly Thursday.
The amendments had been made within the syllabus of a common elective Historical past paper known as ‘Delhi By way of the Ages: The Making of its Early Fashionable Historical past’. In a observe, written by elected AC member Professor Maya John and signed by her two colleagues, the dissenting school members termed as “disturbing” some adjustments within the paper.
Aside from these adjustments, Prof Maya John claimed in varied revisions carried out over time to syllabi by means of the Alternative Primarily based Credit score System (CBCS) in 2016, Studying Consequence-Primarily based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) in 2019, and the Nationwide Instructional Coverage carried out in 2024, the time period ‘Purana Qila’ steadily made approach for ‘Indraprastha-Hastinapur’.
“Within the 2016 model of the paper, the primary unit was titled ‘The Environmental Setting; Prehistoric and Protohistoric Websites; Purana Qila: Archaeology and Legend’… when the paper was later revised in 2019 and 2022, there was nonetheless dialogue in regards to the advanced relationship between legends, myths, and historical past. However within the revised 2024 model of the paper, the title of the primary unit reveals a change (now titled ‘Delhi’s Historic Previous as much as twelfth Century’), and as a substitute of Purana Qila, the explicit use of Indraprastha-Hastinapur is inserted.”
She additional wrote, “The 2024 revised Basic Elective paper, ‘Delhi by means of the Ages: Making of its Early Fashionable Historical past’… was presupposed to be tabled within the July 12, 2024, AC assembly earlier than the first-year lessons commenced. Nevertheless, the paper is being taught in DU with out prior approval of statutory our bodies, which is a severe procedural lapse.”
Furthermore, Yoginipura, one other website, finds a spot within the first unit within the 2024 model. “Although there are necessary historic works on the legend of Yoginipura, the location areas associated to the legend lack scholastic consensus. On this regard, the inclusion of spurious writings, like Suphal Kumar’s Delhi: Metropolis of Yoginis, have been added. Additional, whereas different hagiographic unacademic works by Nilesh Ishwarchand Karkare and Uday S Kulkarni have been included as important readings, an important article by the famend historian, Professor Irfan Habib, has been omitted from even the steered studying listing,” she alleged.
Professor Habib’s article titled ‘Financial Historical past of the Delhi Sultanate – an Essay in Interpretation’ explains the financial background of medieval Delhi. “Such revisions within the paper usually are not primarily based on tutorial advantage,” John mentioned within the observe.
In the meantime, the AC Thursday additionally handed the DU’s revised Strategic Plan — a doc that lays out plans for the college for the following 25 years, regardless of earlier allegations from a number of AC members on plagiarism of content material from different establishments. The doc was mentioned in December final yr and deferred to an “emergent assembly” of the AC.
“DU’s strategic plan is essential for its position in reaching the dream of Viksit Bharat,” DU Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh mentioned in an official assertion Thursday.
Opposing the Institutional Growth Plan (IDP) tabled within the assembly, the DU Academics’ Affiliation (DUTA) raised crucial considerations in regards to the institute’s autonomy. “Any growth plan can be significant and profitable if ready and executed by involving stakeholders… Due to this fact, this doc is required to be first despatched for feedback and ideas to varied stakeholders,” DUTA mentioned in an announcement.
Amongst different gadgets handed embody the introduction of a certificates course within the Chinese language Language, a diploma within the Korean Language, and a diploma course within the Japanese language at Hansraj Faculty; a complicated diploma course within the Chinese language Language and a complicated diploma course within the Japanese Language at Ram Lal Anand Faculty.
