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2025 NCERT Textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate out; ‘sacred geography’, Maha Kumbh in
‘NCERT has dropped all portions on Mughals from Class 7 Books. Students will now get to read about how Rajputs fought against nobody and lost!’ So, sarcastically wrote an ‘X’ user, Joy even as one more cut and slash action of the Modi 3.0 government with Indian social science/ history texts came to light; for the NDA II government this is only the latest in a long series of ad hoc deletions
Peddling a coloured narrative: NCERT Textbooks
By deleting lines, paragraphs and chapters from NCERT textbooks and the Delhi University syllabus, academic institutions working under the Union Government have attempted to peddle a majoritarian Hindutva narrative.
“Embarrassed” with textbooks: Suhas Palshikar, Yogendra Yadav ask NCERT to drop their names
Following recent controversial changes made to political science textbooks, the political scientists wrote to NCERT asking it to drop their names as chief advisors. We feel embarrassed that our names should be mentioned as chief advisors to these mutilated and academically dysfunctional textbooks,” they said.
UP Madrasa Board to introduce NCERT syllabus, no to NCPCR’s diktat on non-Muslim students
However, the controversial, even unconstitutional, recommendation of the NCPCR ‘directing’ non-Muslim students not to be educated at Madrasas was rejected
Now NCERT removes passages about caste and religious discrimination from social science books
The educational body says this is done to remove “overlapping or irrelevant” content and reduce strain on students after the Covid-19 pandemic
Madras HC expresses “dismay and anguish” as NCERT removes report on gender non-conforming, transgender children
Titled 'Inclusion of Transgender Children in School Education: Concerns and Roadmap', the report was taken down from website within hours of its publishing, allegedly owing to ‘external pressure’
Caste Struggle and Colonialism dropped from NCERT school textbooks
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How textbooks teach prejudice
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Education with values
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Teach RSS the Constitution, Mr Prime Minister
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Chapter II – Policies, Curricula, Syllabi and Textbooks
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Educational PoliciesEducational policies are prepared by committees set...