Overview
- Delhi University’s Standing Committee reviewed second-semester postgraduate electives and returned proposals from Economics and History for changes.
- Members objected to a unit on “crime and gender” in an Economics of Gender elective that covered economic theories of intimate partner, domestic and workplace violence.
- Committee member Monami Sinha defended the unit as grounded in established economic literature on the costs of violence against women, while others called it misaligned or ideologically loaded.
- History proposals were criticized for a perceived tilt toward global history, though the department said roughly 70% of the overall syllabus focuses on Indian history.
- Several readings were dropped or flagged for revision, including works by Shireen Moosvi, Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton, with revised syllabi to go next to the Academic and Executive Councils under NEP 2020 reforms.