A group of 123 retired bureaucrats, diplomats, High Court judges and academicians came out in support of Delhi University’s decision to include the study of V.D. Savarkar’s philosophy and his contributions to the freedom struggle in its political science syllabus. In a letter, the group contended that this change was required for a fair narration of the history of India’s national movement.
The group includes former High Court judges S.N. Dhingra, M.C. Garg and R.S. Rathore, former ambassadors Niranjan Desai, O.P. Gupta, Ashok Kumar, Vidya Sagar, and former Foreign Secretary Shashank. They also hailed DU’s decision to drop poet Mohammad Iqbal’s philosophy from the political science syllabus, noting that he was associated with the idea of a separate Muslim nation, which led to the “tragedy of India’s partition”.
