The UGC’s ‘Framework’ for Teaching Indian History to Undergraduates: A Note

We have to remember all the time that we have a regime whose leading light, soon after occupying the office of Prime Minister of the country in 2014, announced that India had known plastic surgery as early as the mythical times when our surgeons fitted an elephant head on the body of Lord Ganesha. It was to be expected that History would soon receive enlightenment of this order through a reshaping of History syllabi at University levels. A first step to this effect has now been taken by a dutiful University Grants Commission, via a so-called ‘Learning Outcomes based Curriculum Framework (LOCF): BA History Undergraduate Programme, 2021’ – the high-sounding title prefacing a mere set of syllabi.