The revised National Council of Educational Research and Training history book for Class 12 has dropped chapters on the Mughal empire, the 2002 Gujarat riots and popular movements. NCERT books are followed across the country in thousands of schools.
Times of India has reported that the chapters under the sub-head ‘Themes of Indian History: Part 2,’ of the Class 12 history textbook, which are related to ‘Kings and Chronicles; the Mughal Courts (C. 16th and 17th centuries)’ have been removed.
Chapters titled ‘Central Islamic Lands,’ ‘Clash of Cultures,’ and ‘Industrial Revolution’ have been removed from the Class 11 book Themes in World History.
The news agency PTI has reported that in the class 12 political science textbook, pages on the topic ‘Gujarat Riots’ have been excluded from the chapter titled ‘Recent Developments in Indian Politics’.
The mention of the National Human Rights Commission report on the 2002 violence and the “raj dharma” remark by then Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee has been dropped from the textbook.
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