The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya suggested the Ambedkar readings, which had started two years earlier, could endanger the “safety and health of (participating) students and reputation of the university”
By Basant Kumar Mohanty
A central university has forced an informal body of Dalit faculty members to stop their weekly readings and discussions of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s works on the campus, show-caused seven of the teachers, and taken punitive action against four of them.
The Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya suggested the Ambedkar readings, which had started two years earlier, could endanger the “safety and health of (participating) students and reputation of the university”.
After most of the show-caused teachers refused to express regret, the university transferred two of them and removed two others from the positions they held at an academic centre on the campus.
Some academics have criticised the university for cracking down on open discussions, particularly on a subject such as Ambedkar’s writings and speeches.
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