New Course on Bhagavad Gita Proposed in DU’s Political Science Syllabus
Ashna Butani | 28 June 2025 | The Hindu
Delhi University’s Political Science department has proposed an elective course, ‘Reading Bhagavad Gita’, for first-year postgraduate students. It is set to be discussed in the upcoming July 1 meeting of the Standing Committee on Academic Affairs. If approved, the proposal to include it in the syllabus will be listed in the July 5 Academic Council meeting, which is the highest authority on decisions pertaining to syllabus changes.
The revisions in the MA programme syllabus under the new Postgraduate Curriculum Framework are in line with the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework that will be implemented from July.
As per the ‘course objective’, it aims to instil Bhagavad Gita’s ‘universal teachings and socio-ethical relevance in modern times’. …