Question: Which University of India recently introduced a course to study the Holocaust?
(a) Allahabad University, Allahabad
(b) Presidency University, Kolkata
(c) Prayag University, Allahabad
(d) Kashi Hindu University, Varanasi
Ans 🙁 b)
Related facts:-
- On March 21, 2017; the Presidency University of Kolkata has started the study of Holocaust Focused Course.
- Study of such courses has been started for the first time in India.
- This is a postgraduate course titled ‘A History of Mass Violence: Twentieth Century to the Present’. It will be taught in the third semester of M.A History.
- Coordinator of this course is Navaras Jat Afridi.
- According to Afridi, outside China and Israel, the Presidency University is the only Asian institution to present a course on the study of the Holocaust.
- The curriculum includes the Armenian massacres, the Indonesian murders of 1965-1966, Burundi, the Pol Pot and the Cambodian massacre, the Rwanda episode and massacres between the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- This course tells students about the challenges of rehabilitation and reconciliation.
- According to University Vice-Chancellor Anuradha Lohia, it is one of the most social and relevant topics in the world.
- It is notable that in Holocaust in Germany, there was a thought and planned effort to eliminate all Jewish people from the roots.
- In addition to the Holocaust, this course has given enough space to other genocide in the world.
Related Links:-
http://zeenews.india.com/education/presidency-universitys-holocaust-focused-course-on-history-of-mass-violence_1988573.html
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/first-for-india-presidencys-holocaust-focused-course-on-history-of-mass-violence/articleshow/57748790.cms
https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/india/holocaust-syllabus-in-west-bengal-presidency-university-1672020