Last Update: 17 July 2022, 09:45 AM IST
Big controversy regarding exam paper. (representative image)
The university has said that it will constitute an inquiry committee to probe the matter.
A question in Periyar University’s second semester MA exam, the demand to know the “lowest caste” in Tamil Nadu, has sparked a major controversy in the state.
The university has said that it will constitute an inquiry committee to probe the matter. The question was under Part A – Independence Movement in Tamil Nadu from 1880 to 1947, consisting of 15 multiple choice questions of 1 mark each. The 11th question in this series read: “Which is the following caste that belongs to Tamil Nadu (sic)?”
A press statement by Periyar University said that the university will take action against the wrongdoers. Speaking to the media, Registrar D. Gopi said: “When we checked, the teachers who set the question paper said that it is part of the syllabus. It could have been avoided.”
Social media users slammed Periyar University and its history department for raising such a question.
“It is really bad on the part of the university to prescribe such a question for the history exam paper. They should at least understand that the university is named after one of the greatest social reformers of the state, on whose ideology Dravidian politics has developed in the state,” Rajesh Chandran, a Salem-based social activist, told IANS.
AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said: “Is the Dravidian politics of social justice of DMK now revolving around ridiculing Periyar’s ideology and promoting caste inequality among students through such questions in semester exams.”
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