The CBSE earlier this week dropped translated verses of Faiz Ahmad Faiz바카라s poems in NCERT바카라s class 10th political science textbook from the curriculum which students had been reading for more than 10 years.
The Outlook바카라s October 11, 2021 issue covered the syllabus revision. Here are some stories from the issues. Click on headlines to read.
The CBSE earlier this week dropped translated verses of Faiz Ahmad Faiz바카라s poems in NCERT바카라s class 10th political science textbook from the curriculum which students had been reading for more than 10 years.
The poems, included in the book바카라s section on 바카라Religion, Communalism and Politics 바카라 Communalism, Secular State바카라, are not the first exclusions from syllabi in recent years. Earlier, Mahasweta Devi바카라s Draupadi was dropped from the syllabus by Delhi University, which also revised history syllabus a few years back.
The Outlook바카라s October 11, 2021 issue covered the syllabus revision. Here are some stories from the issues. Click on headlines to read.
In this piece, Chinki Sinha wrote about the many questions she had growing up that her syllabus at the time did not explain.
These questions concerned Draupadi that she watched being disrobed on television, a Dalit named Muniya who used to do cleaning at their house, and an old woman named Gangajali who cared for her grandmother.
She wrote about Muniya, 바카라She would shout and announce her arrival. Her shadow wasn바카라t good for us, I was told. She was served tea in a cup kept outside the house. She squatted on the floor outside the door. When I asked why we couldn바카라t give her the porcelain cup, I was told that바카라s how it was. She was not 바카라us바카라, and when I asked about 바카라them바카라, there was just silence.바카라
She wrote about Gangajali, 바카라When my grandmother died, Gangajali wasn바카라t a part of the rituals. The one who fed her water with a spoon all those years wasn바카라t allowed to pour gangajal (holy water) in my dying grandmother바카라s mouth. Gangajali disappeared. I asked why. They kept silent.바카라
Caste, gender, women바카라s movement and citizenship were not part of the syllabus, but it바카라s not out of our lives. Sinha wrote, 바카라There are many Draupadis around us. There are many injustices, a lot of pain and violence. We see it now. You can take it out of syllabus. You can바카라t take it out of us. Everything is out there, around us.바카라
State Terror, Armed Forces And The Story Behind Removal Of 'Draupadi' From DU Syllabus by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
The Delhi University dropped Mahasweta Devi바카라s short story Draupadi from its syllabus last year. The story first was published in the leftist literary journal Porichay in 1977 and was included in Mahasweta바카라s short story collection Agnigarbha in 1978.
In this piece, Bhattacharya wrote how Draupadi has unsettled patriarchy in the decades since its publication. He mentions a play in Manipur, based on the story in which an actor portrayed Draupadi who was sexually abused by a military officer.
바카라The audience was taken by shock and awe as Heisnam [the actor playing Draupadi] stood stark naked after flinging her last cover, the lower garment phanek, on the general,바카라 wrote Snigdhendu.
While the play was criticised at the time for its use of nudity, it was later said to be prophetic as 12 women posed naked in front of an Assam Rifles unit with a banner reading 바카라Indian Army Rape Us바카라 in protest against the rape and murder of 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama, allegedly by soldiers of the Assam Rifles.
In this piece, Vikas Pathak placed the removal of Mahasweta Devi바카라s Drauapdi by Delhi University in a broader context in which DU바카라s earlier revision of its history syllabus and controversy over Kerala바카라s inclusion of writings by MS Golwalkar and VD. Savarkar in Kannur University syllabus are mentioned.
Pathak noted that RSS바카라s agenda to 바카라Indianise바카라 education and curriculum finds resonance in UGC바카라s draft history syllabus.
He further wrote on the shift from left-leaning historians, 바카라If university syllabi over the last few ¬decades had books by scholars who were either Marxist or broadly aligned with the left바카라DD Kosambi, RS Sharma, DN Jha, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Satish Chandra, Bipan Chandra and Sumit Sarkar were routinely taught in ¬universities like JNU and DU바카라the new curriculum marks the return of scholars like R.C. Majumdar, Jadunath Sarkar, R.S. Tripathi, Aashirwadi Lal Srivastav and K.A. Nilakantha Sastri. The move away from Marxist readings is clear, though Thapar, Bipan Chandra and Sarkar do find a mention in the new reading list.바카라