India, July 6 -- Papers with references to Pakistan, China, Islam, and political violence were dropped from Delhi University's Political Science department's postgraduate syllabus after its top academic body on Saturday approved the proposal.

The proposal, first floated and approved by the Standing Committee in June this yearaimed to strike down the papers 'Pakistan and the World', 'China's Role in the Contemporary World', 'Islam and International Relations', 'Pakistan: State and Society' and 'Religious Nationalism and Political Violence'.

The Academic Council on Saturday also approved the introduction of a new paper on "Sikh martyrdom" in Indian History. The course will be called Centre for Independence and Partition Studies (CIPS), an...