'Irony At Its Peak': Delhi University Post Graduate History Syllabus Drops Delhi Sultanate
18 August 2026 | The Wire
New Delhi: Delhi University has dropped the Delhi Sultanate course from its newly notified postgraduate History syllabus. “The Delhi Sultanate: Structures of Authority in Medieval North India (13th-14th Centuries)” paper was earlier included in the third semester.
The other long-running papers on ancient, medieval and modern Indian history which have been left out in the updated syllabus are “History of North India, c. 1400-1550,” “Gender and Women in Early India: 1500 BCE to 1000 CE,” “Political Processes and Structure of Polities in Ancient India,” and “Religion and Society in Ancient Indian Literature,”” The Indian Express reported.