New Delhi: ‘Draupadi’, a story by Mahashweta Devi, and the writings of Bama Faustina Soosairaj and Sukirtharani, both feminist writers Tamil Dalit, was released from the British syllabus at the University of Delhi.
Apart from the resistance of 15 selected members, the Academic Council, who met on Tuesday, agreed to the piece.
Some teachers expressed survival at the decision of the university supervision committee that they suspected did not have representatives from the British department, the Head of the Department was only a special invitation.
The panel considers reinforced syllabus changes.
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But the decline in these stories revealed a disturbing pattern.
These stories provide an alternative way to see classics and help us form varying and more nuanced understandings about them.
There is a reality in diversity, especially in the literature.
Those who frame the syllabus should not ignore it.
Mithuraaj Dhusiya, AC member who signed a record of opinion about changes in syllabus, claiming, “Syllabus restructuring has taken place and has been carried out democratically at various levels.
A year ago, AC formed the Supervisory Committee to see controversial syllabus changes.
But the committee did not have stupi locus to change anything.
There are political reasons to eliminate certain texts.
We are 15 selected members expressed differences of opinion, but changes in English are still approved.
“Note opinion differences,” in the core paper titled Women’s Writing in Semester V, the Supervisory Committee has Maximum vandalism.
First decided to remove two Dalit writers, namely Bama and Sukirtharani, who were replaced by the author of the caste of Ramabai.
Second, the committee, as a reflection, suddenly asked for the elimination of short stories celebrate Mahasweta Devi, ‘Draupadi’.
” M Pandit, Chair of the Supervisory Committee, confirmed, “Pen Committee Alone is appointed by the Executive Board, the highest university decision-making agency, and is a committee that is empowered.
This panel has worked for more than six years now and is specifically made to see syllabus matters, especially when AC and EC meetings are not held.
“Dhusiya describes ‘Draupadi’ as a seminal text that discusses the exploitation of tribal women.” In the syllabus since 1999 and is part of the UGC template.
We don’t know why DU removes it, “he said.
‘Sultana Dream’, a short story, has replaced it.
Note Disagrees of opinion,” in Making Elective Discipline-Specific titled ‘Pre-Colonial Indian Literatures’, the Supervisory Committee has instructed the department to replace’ Chandrabati Ramayana ‘with Tulsidas, thus eliminating Ramayana feminist readings.
Similarly, in other DSE paper titled ‘Interrogating Qeveress “, the committee has arbitrarily removed the part of the unit at the expense of paper academic stiffness.” In 2019, there was controversy over the removal and changes in English text in the riots in Gujarat and Muzaffarnagar from the reading list.
In history too, there are objections to naxalism taught as part of the ‘workplace’ democratic paper.
In sociology, chapters from Subaltern and Sovereign Nandini Sundar: Anthropological History Bastar has problems, but then maintained.
Delhi Univ dropped the story of the authors of Dalit from Syllabus Eng
