The Indian Nursing Council (INC) on Tuesday condemned the “derogatory content” in the Sociology textbook for second-year B.Sc. students listing the “merits and advantages of the dowry system”.
”It has been brought to the notice of INC that author and publisher of textbook of sociology for nurses has placed INC name on its cover page. We condemn any derogatory content related to social evils of the society e.g. dowry, using its name,’’ it said in a notification issued on Tuesday. It added that as a regulatory body for nurses and nurse education in India, it “only prescribes syllabus for various nursing programs” which is published on its website.
A page from the ‘Textbook of Sociology for Nurses’, authored by T.K. Indrani, has been widely circulated on the internet and lists four merits and advantages of the dowry system.
