On the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme

Since forums for academic discussion and debate in the university are no longer functioning, this letter from faculty members of the History Department at Delhi University seeks to set the record straight on many details related to this issue. (1) The public needs to know that discussions regarding the new FYUP were managed by the university authorities not in a democratic academic environment framed by university regulations, but in committees carefully screened by the university administration. Some of the signatories to this letter have drawn attention elsewhere that the course suffers from a naive and flat presentism, and fails even so much as to mention caste, class or community formation.