Now you will be able to do PG in ‘Hinduism’, Banaras Hindu University started the course

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Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University has started a postgraduate course in ‘Hinduism’. The university has described it as the first course of its kind in the country. Inaugurating this new course, Professor VK Shukla, the Rector of the University, said that this course will help in making the world aware of many unknown aspects of Hinduism as well as take the teachings of Hinduism to more and more people.

Shukla said that this would be the first such course in the country. The course will be conducted in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Department of Sanskrit, and Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archeology of the Faculty of Arts of ‘Bharat Study Centre’. A total of 45 students, including one foreign student, have taken admission in the first session of the course, he added.

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Sadashiv Kumar Divedi, the coordinator of ‘India Study Centre’, said that this two-year course will have 4 semesters and 16 papers. Dr. Vijay Shankar Shukla, director of the Varanasi Center of Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, said that the idea of ​​starting such a course was first given by the 18th-century scholar’s Pandit Ganganath Jha and Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. But due to some reasons, this course could not be started at that time.

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