Overview

• A sixth-semester history exam question asked students to name British district magistrates “killed by terrorists,” mischaracterising Indian revolutionaries as terrorists.
• Vice Chancellor Dipak Kumar Kar called it a printing error, apologised publicly and said a mistranslation of 'militant nationalism' into Bengali as 'Santrasbadi' caused the mislabel.
• The university launched an internal inquiry and suspended both the paper moderator and a staff member involved in drafting the question pending the report.
• West Bengal BJP leaders wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Education Minister Bratya Basu demanding identification and penalisation of those responsible.
• Student unions, historians and civil society groups held campus protests and urged syllabus reviews to safeguard accurate historical portrayal.