History syllabus issue

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, OCT. 21. The Democratic Government College Teachers' Association (DGCTA) has reiterated that the issue relating to the revision of syllabus for the post-graduate course in History, was purely academic and not prompted by extraneous considerations.

Reacting to the statement made by Dr.K.K.Kusuman, the Chairman of the Board of Studies for M.A. History, Dr.V.Madhusudanan, General secretary of the DGCTA, has said that the former could not justify the faux pas that has occurred in this regard.

Meanwhile, the Sunni Students' Federation (SSF), has expressed its protest over the elimination of the Islamic Period from the syllabi of the M.A. History course of the Kerala University and the degree course of the Calicut University.

There was no justification in excluding this period while incorporating in the syllabus such topics as Cuban and Vitenamese Communist revolutions that had no relevance in the Indian context, the State secretariat of the SSF which met here today said.

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