India, Dec. 24 -- Objections were raised during Monday's meeting of Delhi University's Standing Committee for Academic Affairs against units dealing with "crime and gender" in a course titled "Economics of Gender", even as several readings in the History syllabus, including Shireen Moosvi's "Work and Gender in Mughal India", were dropped, at least two committee members confirmed, adding that the panel also sent back an additional elective paper proposed by the Department of Economics for revision.

According to a copy of the proposed syllabus seen by HT, the Economics of Gender course included a unit on "crime and gender" that examined economic theories of intimate partner violence, domestic and workplace violence, and the relationship be...