Mridula Mukherjee, a well-known historian professor, who taught in JNU for four decades, recently spoke to Sidharth Bhatia for ‘The Wire Talks’ podcast on the impact of the NCERT removing portions relating to the Mughals and much more from high school textbooks. She points out the changes are very shoddily done – even the Industrial Revolution has been removed.
Below is the full text of the interview. Listen to the podcast here.
Hello and welcome to ‘The Wire Talks’. I am Sidharth Bhatia. History is always written by the victor, it is said, but aren’t some facts of history uncontestable. Indian historical knowledge has been the product of painstaking research by experts over decades. Post independence Indian textbooks began reflecting history that gave the Indian and not the colonial point of view and these have been taught to school children and to undergraduates for a very very long time.
The news, therefore, that the National Council of Educational Research and Training or NCERT which advises the government on school education has made several important cuts to the high school textbooks in history, political science, and perhaps other disciplines has sent shockwaves among academics and educationists.
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