The announcement was made by Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit. She said the university will send a proposal in this regard to the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Education (MoE).
JNU mulling to set up centre to study 1947 partition: VC
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is mulling setting up a center to study the 1947 partition in depth to fill in the historical gaps. The announcement was made by Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit. She said the university will send a proposal in this regard to the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Education (MoE).
She further added that "the centre will mainly focus on research around the partition so as to highlight the stories of common people who were affected by it while also highlighting the "horrors" of the division". The University will also include new courses regarding the same.
The centre will help students to study the refugees and the situation where people had to migrate involuntarily, Santishree said, as reported by NDTV. "The university is planning to set up the centre under the School of International Studies because it envisions studying the impact of partition on the whole of South Asia," she said .
"Higher Education institutions should fill up the gaps in history. Putting up exhibitions is good but they are temporary. So we suggested that as a contribution, JNU should have a special centre on partition studies. It will help in filling the gaps about the events," Santishree said. "We want to bring out the knowledge of the ordinary people. We need to study the letters written by people who experienced the partition," she said.
She further added that the centre will also help in refugee studies by imparting more knowledge about the situation where people are pushed to relocate." The varsity is planning to name the centre after the first home minister of India -- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or Jan Sangh founder Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, the VC informed, adding, Both of them took a very different stand on the partition. It was one of the violent partitions. People have suffered."
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