Jinnah as a ‘chief of minorities’? Jammu College launches probe after protests over new syllabus | India Information
2 min learnJammuMar 22, 2026 07:00 AM IST
A chapter on minorities and nations vis-à-vis Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah within the M.A. Political Science syllabus has sparked controversy at Jammu College, with Vice Chancellor Umesh Rai constituting a committee to look at the problem.
Headed by Professor Naresh Padha of the Physics Division, the committee has been tasked with analyzing the “syllabus of political science” in gentle of issues raised by some college students.
Jinnah has lengthy figured within the postgraduate political science syllabus on campus.
Earlier, Jinnah appeared in a chapter on the “two-nation principle” as a mindset behind the Partition of India, mentioned Sannak Shrivats, ABVP’s J&Okay state secretary who led a protest on campus Friday.
Now, within the revised syllabus for PG Political Science, Jinnah seems in a chapter on “Minorities and the Nations”, portraying him a frontrunner of minorities in India, he added.
In search of withdrawal of the chapter, he mentioned college students don’t have any objection to Jinnah being taught as a mindset behind the Partition of India.
He mentioned that if there needs to be a chapter on individuals representing minorities, the syllabus ought to embody B R Ambedkar or Frontier Gandhi Abdul Gaffar Khan, who had actually labored for them.
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Head of the Political Science Division at Jammu College, Baljit Singh Mann, nevertheless, defended the syllabus, saying the inclusion of Jinnah and different thinkers is solely educational and per curricula adopted by universities nationwide, in addition to UGC norms.
Stating that an pointless controversy is being created over a purely educational difficulty, he mentioned the college doesn’t promote any ideology however presents numerous viewpoints to allow essential analysis.
This isn’t the primary time the college’s political science division has courted controversy.
In 2018, a row erupted after a video clip confirmed a professor from the division calling freedom fighter Bhagat Singh a terrorist.
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The professor was suspended and an enquiry initiated following the controversy. He later expressed remorse, saying he was quoted out of context, and clarified that he was instructing Lenin–whose brother was killed in a terror act–and talked about Bhagat Singh from the British perspective of that point.
