GORAKHPUR: The Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) College in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, has revealed plans to determine a ‘Centre for Research on Ayodhya‘ (CSA). Moreover, the college will introduce a postgraduate course titled ‘Historicity of Ayodhya‘ ranging from the educational session 2024-25.
The CSA, being established within the college of Arts, will give attention to encouraging research on tracing varied dimensions of religious, cultural and historic journey of Ayodhya which is growing as a contemporary tourism centre.
The centre will coordinate with completely different departments of the college pursuing varied analysis works associated to Ayodhya and Lord Ram.
Gorakhpur college vice-chancellor Prof Poonam Tandon stated, “Our college is a vital centre of studying in Purvanchal area surrounded by the birthplace and essential locations associated to nice non secular, religious and historic personalities.”
Stating that whereas Lord Ram’s birthplace Ayodhya is 134 km away, Gautam Buddha’s ‘Parinirvan sthal’ Kushinagar is simply 55 km away, his birthplace Lumbini is 122 km away, and Saint Kabir’s Samadhi place is 30 km away.
“The upcoming CSA will present a platform to the scholars and researchers to review and be taught extra in regards to the lives of those nice personalities and examine their contributions,” she stated.
The CSA will probably be established within the division of historical historical past, archaeology and tradition.
The primary goal of this centre is to advertise research on matters associated to the transformation of Ayodhya from an historical metropolis to a contemporary pilgrimage and tourism web site.
The course on ‘historicity of Ayodhya’ may also be provided as an elective course for college kids of different topics/ disciplines. The course will hint the historic journey of Ayodhya from pre-Vedic interval to up to date days. The course will probably be run by the division of historical historical past, archaeology and tradition, and the division of medieval and trendy historical past.