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Vipin Vijayan, a probe student successful the Department of Sanskrit astatine the University of Kerala, has alleged caste-based favoritism and maltreatment of authorization by section caput C.N. Vijayakumari.
The contention arose aft Prof. Vijayakumari, who besides serves arsenic the Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, objected to the grant of PhD to the scholar.
In a Facebook post, Mr. Vijayan accused the Professor of attempting to sabotage his PhD valuation by falsely claiming that helium does not cognize Sanskrit. The probe scholar, who holds an MPhil successful Sanskrit from the aforesaid department, wrote that helium had completed his dissertation nether the guidance of Prof. Vijayakumari herself.
“If I genuinely did not cognize Sanskrit, however did the aforesaid usher o.k. my MPhil dissertation,” helium asked successful his post, successful which helium questioned the credibility and intentions of the Dean’s study to the Vice-Chancellor.
The student alleged that the contention was driven by caste prejudice and governmental bias wrong the department. “My authorities is left-wing. The teacher follows RSS-BJP ideology and is an progressive subordinate of the Sangh Parivar-affiliated teachers’ relation astatine the university,” Mr. Vijayan wrote.
Mr. Vijayan clarified that his PhD thesis was written successful English, which is permissible nether assemblage regulations. He added that respective MPhil and PhD theses successful the Sanskrit section person been written successful English, and that the rules let unfastened defence presentations to beryllium conducted successful English oregon Malayalam arsenic well.
Accusing the Dean of overstepping her authorization and disregarding the recommendations of the Vice Chancellor–appointed examiners and unfastened defence chairperson, who had already approved his thesis for the PhD, the student demanded that Prof. Vijayakumari beryllium removed from her post.
Mr. Vijayan compared his acquisition to that of Rohith Vemula, the Dalit student from the University of Hyderabad, who had committed termination successful 2016.
