Kerala academic council includes 'all ideologies' to end university syllabus row

The Academic Council of Kannur University approved the new syllabus revised by the Board of Studies as per the directive of an expert committee. The university reportedly has made changes to the controversial syllabus in the newly started PG (Governance and Politics). The books by Deendayal Upadhyaya and Balraj Madhok will be excluded from the syllabus while the works of Gowalkar and Savarkar will be taught. In addition, Gandhian, Islamic and socialist streams will be included in the revised syllabus

Kannur: The academic council of Kannur University has approved the new syllabus revised by the Board of Studies as per the directive of an expert committee. The university has reportedly made changes to the controversial syllabus in the newly started PG (Governance and Politics). The books by Deendayal Upadhyaya and Balraj Madhok will be excluded from the syllabus while the works of Gowalkar and Savarkar will be taught. In addition, Gandhian, Islamic and socialist streams will be included in the revised syllabus.

It is learnt that the syllabus was examined by an expert committee consisting of U. Pavithran, former head of Political Science, University of Kerala, and Prabhash, former head of Political Science of the University of Calicut. The updated syllabus has given priority to Muslim, socialist and Dravidian philosophies. With this, the controversy came to an end.

Instead of RSS ideologues, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Maulana Azad, EMS Namboodiripad, Ram Manohar Lohia and Periyar have been included in the syllabus. V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar are in the text but it is for a critical study. There are changes not only in the content of the syllabus but also in its perspective. The concept of 'Rashtra' or 'Nation' in 'Indian Political Thought' was changed to 'Nation' and 'Nationalism' in 'Indian Political Thought' as a critic.