In the 1960s, Delhi University used to have a “combined” honours degree, modelled on the PPE of Oxford or the Tripos of Cambridge. But they discontinued it in 1966, I think.
Had they strengthened it instead, rather than treating it as a souped-up BA pass course, I think we would have had a far better-informed cohort of social-science graduates because politics, economics, and philosophy shouldn’t be taught and learnt in isolation from each other. That creates a silo mindset which never leaves the person.
One bad consequence of that hasty deletion of the combined honours course was that it took nearly 30
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