New Delhi, July 6 -- The Delhi University's Academic Council (AC) has approved a proposal to introduce a course on Sikh martyrdom for all undergraduate students, focusing on how the Sikh community emerged in response to "religious persecution" and "state oppression" during the Mughal period and later during foreign invasions.
The Centre for Independence and Partition Studies (CIPS), University of Delhi has introduced a course "Sikh Martyrdom in Indian History (c. 1500-1765)" which is for all General Elective (GE) courses.
According to the curriculum, the course aims to "throw light on the moral basis of emergent struggle by Sikhs to resist religious persecution" and "focus on the neglected social-religious history of martyrdom in the Indi...