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The new syllabus recommended for the MA History course at Kerala University is embroiled in a controversy with the Democratic Government College Teachers’ Association here demanding that it should be with drawn. They say the new syllabus skips the 1,200 years during which various Muslim dynasties were in power.
Association General Secretary Dr. V. Madhusudhanan said in a statement here that the syllabus, which was recommended by the Board of Studies and Academic Council that is dominated by Left intellectual, ignores the period from the invasion of Mahmud Ghazni, after the downfall of the Gupta dynasty, till the end of the Mughal rule.
“As per the syllabus, the students have to study Indian history up to the sixth century and then from the beginning of the freedom struggle. This will deprive students of 1,200 years of the history of the country which comes between these two periods,” he charged.
Kerala University, however, has denied that it had deliberately excluded the period from the M.A. History syllabus. According to a university press release, every year, the Board of Studies leaves out certain papers and includes some others in the syllabus.
This year, according
to it, the board excluded the papers ‘Mughals and Marathas’, ‘Constitutional
History of Britain’, ‘History of South-East Asia’ and ‘History of West
Asia’. The paper ‘Mughals and Marathas’ was excluded because the degree-level
syllabus prescribes a detailed study of this period of Indian history.
It is not right to say
that the study of Islamic history has been excluded, the university added,
because the paper ‘History of Social Reform Movements in India’ covers
detailed study of the social reform movements in Islamic religion.
The university release also denied the charge that too much importance has been given to north Indian history.
The economic history of Modern India and the history of post-Independence south India have also been included in the syllabus, it said.
Madhusudhanan, however,
pointed out that the period which had been omitted from the syllabus is
very crucial as far as Indian history is concerned.
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