The vice-chancellor of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College Delhi (AUD), Anu Singh Lather, has mentioned the establishment is intentionally avoiding the time period Indian Information System in favour of the ‘Bharatiya Information System’ as “India is a overseas phrase”.

Asserting its cultural identification and tutorial autonomy, the college’s selection of terminology displays a deeper philosophical and historic consciousness, in response to Ms. Lather.

“The phrase India itself is overseas to all of us,” she mentioned throughout an interview with PTI.

Ms. Lather mentioned the AUD has not too long ago authorised 54 obligatory BKS programs that will probably be built-in throughout programmes in varied departments, together with historical past, regulation, heritage administration and political philosophy.

These are usually not merely value-addition electives, however necessary parts meant to embed indigenous information frameworks into formal larger schooling, she mentioned.

“We took practically two years to finalise these programs. Each reference cited contains the unique supply — the Upanishads, Mahabharata, or Arthashastra, all the way down to the chapter, verse, and line. We have accomplished critical tutorial groundwork,” Ms. Lather mentioned, including that the initiative is maybe probably the most rigorous BKS mannequin in any Indian college.

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The curriculum contains themes comparable to Bharatiya foundational political philosophy, Yoga and the Self, Indian aesthetics, Bhakti as Gyaan, conventional regulation programs, and historical Indian science and expertise.

These programs, Ms. Lather defined, have been developed by inviting national-level specialists and underwent sturdy tutorial scrutiny earlier than receiving approval within the college’s Educational Council.

Positioning AUD as a thought chief beneath the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP) framework, Ms. Lather mentioned, “We’re not competing with different establishments. Our imaginative and prescient, rooted in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s beliefs, guides our distinct tutorial identification, together with our method to what information deserves to be central.”

This daring pivot, she instructed, is a part of a wider imaginative and prescient of reclaiming indigenous mental traditions whereas reshaping postcolonial tutorial discourse.