India, May 3 -- The chair of Delhi University's (DU) Standing Committee for Academic Affairs has recommended the removal of a chapter on conflict resolution in the psychology syllabus that includes discussions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, Kashmir, and India's North-East, suggesting instead that students study the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita to better understand the "psychology of peace," according to at least two officials present at a committee meeting on Friday.

Chair professor Shri Prakash Singh reportedly objected to several other units in the psychology syllabus as well, including those on "minority stress theory," "psychology of diversity," and "dating apps," stressing that the course included "too much Western thought."...