The list is long if selective.
Class XII: Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Rajguru Rabindranath Tagore, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rani Laxmibai, Maharana Pratap, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Adi Shankaracharya, Guru Nanak Dev, APJ Abdul Kalam, Ramanujacharya, Panini, Aryabhatta and CV Raman.
Uttar Pradesh (UP) under the second term rule of Ajay Bisht aka Adityanath will now see a fres effort to “familiarise students with the civilisation and culture of the country”, the Uttar Pradesh government has incorporated the biographies of 50 eminent leaders, including VD Savarkar, a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha, to the academic curriculum of Classes IX to XII of the state board.
A spokesperson for government on June 23, on Friday, announced to the media that this is being done “to introduce students of the state to the civilisation and culture of the country, following the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath”. This has been reported in The Indian Express.
“The students will now read about the country’s great men, revolutionaries, freedom fighters, social reformers, historians, and great personalities. Many of them sacrificed their lives for the country’s independence,” said the spokesperson.
Class IX students will read the life stories of Chandra Shekhar Azad, Birsa Munda, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Veer Kunwar Singh, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Gautam Buddha, Jyotiba Phule, Chhatrapati Shivaji, VD Savarkar, Vinoba Bhave, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Class X: Mangal Pandey, Roshan Singh, Sukhdev, Lokmanya Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, Khudiram Bose and Swami Vivekananda.
Class XI: Ram Prasad Bismil, Bhagat Singh, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, Mahavir Jain, Bharat Ratna Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Arvind Ghosh, Raja Rammohan Roy, Sarojini Naidu, Nana Saheb, Maharishi Patanjali, Shalya Physician Sushrut and Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
Class XII: Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Rajguru Rabindranath Tagore, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rani Laxmibai, Maharana Pratap, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Adi Shankaracharya, Guru Nanak Dev, APJ Abdul Kalam, Ramanujacharya, Panini, Aryabhatta and CV Raman.
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