Nagpur University to include BJP’s history in MA 4th semester, communist party’s history removed

Nagpur University will incorporate the history of the BJP in the fourth semester of its MA program. Aside from that, the communist party's history has been moved from the national party to the second course, the history of the regional party. 

Nagpur University includes the history of the Bharatiya Janata Party in its curriculum, along with the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. The party's history will be in the fourth semester. 

After Diwali, students in the MA program at Nagpur University will begin their fourth semester, during which they will study topics including the history of the BJP and the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. In previous years, the university taught both the history of Congress and Jan Sangh.

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The Board of Practice of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University's history department has given its approval to these adjustments. The fourth semester of the MA History course was modified as a result of revisions mandated by the National Education Policy.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was added to Nagpur University's BA syllabus in 2019, continuing a trend of syllabus revisions.

In addition, the course will now address the BJP's development following the Jana Sangh era, including its formation and contribution to a stable central administration. For students, this course is optional. The curriculum will also look at key movements that occurred between 1980 and 2000, such as the influential Ram Janmabhoomi campaign that forever altered Indian politics.

However, there has been some dispute over these changes, with the Congress voicing concerns about the revised curriculum.

The Delhi University Academic Council (AC) previously changed several elective papers in the undergraduate Economics program. The title of the article "Economics of Discrimination" has also been changed to "Economic Thought of Ambedkar," among other things. Small changes were made to the paper on "Production Relations and Globalisation," and the reading list for the paper on "Economy, State, and Society" was revised. This new paper will be presented during the current 2023–2024 academic year and added to the university's undergraduate economics curriculum.

A team of six people was assembled by Yogesh Singh, the vice chancellor of the University of Delhi, to look at the Economics curriculum. The Academic Council members opposed to the amendments contend that using this strategy will obviate the democratic process of syllabus development. Source

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