The JNU VC said the "status of shudras given to women in Manusmriti" makes it extraordinarily regressive.
The varsity will send a proposal in this regard to the University Grants Commission and the ministry of education.
Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit won't be afraid to tangle with the toughest of them.
A day after her remarks during a lecture in which she had said that anthropologically Gods do not belong to the upper caste, Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said it is to the credit of Hinduism that great dissenters from Gautam Buddha to Dr B R Ambedkar are celebrated.
